. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. IIG PAMILIAE FEATURES OP THE ROADSIDE. is strongly marked about the head and wings with chestnut-brown and a blackish brown; above and beneath his eye are long lines of ashen-gray, and his breast is also this color. The female is similarly but less darkly colored ; she lays four or five light-blue eggs. The nest is usually built in the bushes beside some brook that passes beneath the road. The yellow - winged sparrow has been described in the foregoing chapter on Meadow Singers. The field sparrow {Sj
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. IIG PAMILIAE FEATURES OP THE ROADSIDE. is strongly marked about the head and wings with chestnut-brown and a blackish brown; above and beneath his eye are long lines of ashen-gray, and his breast is also this color. The female is similarly but less darkly colored ; she lays four or five light-blue eggs. The nest is usually built in the bushes beside some brook that passes beneath the road. The yellow - winged sparrow has been described in the foregoing chapter on Meadow Singers. The field sparrow {Sj)izdla jju- silla) is another small character with a red-brown head, a bit gray over the eye, brown back, streaked black, edged with gray, and an ocher-colored Ijreast; the bill is reddish light brown. He has a good loud voice of his own, and I am by no means sure that he ever subsides to the cricket- like chirrup such as Wilson describes. His song is restricted to perhaps three tones, but these are dis- tinctly musical:. Field Sparrow. > > =^ I* I* I* f (*?" ^ »f. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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