. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. â â nil .; t t. . jri i t W- 1 ' f r n. }ji6 SINGING BIRDS. FIKLD SPARROW. SpIZELL.\ <"HAK. Above, streaked rufous, black, and buff; crown chestnut, with obscure mctliaii line of ash ; hind neck, sides of head and neck ash ; cheek shaded with brown ; winj^s with two white bars; below, white; breast and throat tinged with yellow ; bill reddish brown. Length 5^ inches. ^\ In a field, pasture, or oi)en woodland, amid a tuft of grass or in a tangled thicke
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. â â nil .; t t. . jri i t W- 1 ' f r n. }ji6 SINGING BIRDS. FIKLD SPARROW. SpIZELL.\ <"HAK. Above, streaked rufous, black, and buff; crown chestnut, with obscure mctliaii line of ash ; hind neck, sides of head and neck ash ; cheek shaded with brown ; winj^s with two white bars; below, white; breast and throat tinged with yellow ; bill reddish brown. Length 5^ inches. ^\ In a field, pasture, or oi)en woodland, amid a tuft of grass or in a tangled thicket, sometimes placed on a low bush or vine; composed of grass, twigs, and straw, lined with hair, line roots, or fur. ^â xX-^- 3~5; ''"â¢'" ^vhite or with buff or green tint, usually thickly spotted with reddish brown; X The Small Brown Sparrow arrives in Pennsylvania and New Mngland from the Southern States, where it passes the winter, in the beginning of April. It is with us a shy, wild, and retir- ing species, j^artial to dry hills and i)astures, and o]')en, bushy, secluded woods, living much in trees. In autumn, indeed, the pair, accompanied by their brood, in small flitting flocks leave their native wilds, and glean at times in the garden or orchard ; yet but little is now seen of them, as they only approach culti- vated grounds a few weeks before their departure. These Si)arrows, if indeed they are the same as those described by \\'ilson. in winter flock together in great numbers in the Southern States, and mingling with the Chipping Birds and other species, they now line the roads, fences, and straggling bushes near the plantations in such numbers as, with their sober and brown livery, to resemble almost a shower of rust- ling and falling leaves, continually haunting the advancing steps of the traveller in hungry, active flocks, driven by the storms of winter into this temporary and irksome exile. But no sooner does the return of early spring arr
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