. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. CHIPPING SPAEKOW 161 light gray around it; in the Chipping Sparrow the black line through the eye and the white line over it give the head a very different appearance. Chipping Spaekow. Spisella socialis • Ad. — Crown reddish-brown, a gray line over the eye, a black line through it; cheek gray; back brown, streaked with black ; under parts ash-gray ; bill black (c
. A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over two hundred and fifty species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field. Birds; Birds. CHIPPING SPAEKOW 161 light gray around it; in the Chipping Sparrow the black line through the eye and the white line over it give the head a very different appearance. Chipping Spaekow. Spisella socialis • Ad. — Crown reddish-brown, a gray line over the eye, a black line through it; cheek gray; back brown, streaked with black ; under parts ash-gray ; bill black (cinnamon-brownish in winter); tail long and slender, rather deeply notched. Im. — Young birds in the first plumage have the breast streaked, in the next they lack the reddish crown. Nest, always lined with horsehair, placed in a bush, vine, or low tree. Eggs, bluish, with brown or blackish markings. The Chipping Sparrow is an abundant summer resident throughout New York and New England, breeding even in the forested regions wherever there are clearings and cultivated ground. It arrives early in April and remains through Octo- ber. It is common in the village door- yards, about farm buildings, along the roadsides, and in the pasture, especially where there are groves of red cedars. It „ „,. ° Fig. Chipping is unsuspicious, and often comes to the Sparrow doorstep in search of food. The song is a succession of staccato notes, or rather the same note repeated rather rapidly; the songs of diflferent in- dividuals vary greatly as to time. The song resembles that of the Snowbird, but is drier and less musical ; the Swamp Sparrow's song is still more powerful and musical, while the Pine Warbler's song'is a trill, the notes running lazily into each other. The Chipping Sparrow's call-note is a slight tsip. The reddish-brown crown and unstreaked ashy breast distinguish it readily from most of the other sparrows ; from its close relative the Field Sparrow it may be told in.
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