. The book of birds; common birds of town and country and American game birds . Black-billed MagpieYellow-billed MagimePhocbe Blue-fronted JayWood Pewee 21 VESPER SPARROW (Pooecetesgramineus and subspecies) Length, about 6 inches. Its white-tippedouter tail feathers distinguish this individualfrom its brown Hveried fellows. Range: Breeds from southern Canada southto Oregon, Arizona, Texas. Kentucky, Vir-ginia, and North Carolina; winters from south-ern California. Texas. Missouri, and NorthCarolina south to the Gulf coast and southernMexico. There is little about this brown-streakedsparrow to
. The book of birds; common birds of town and country and American game birds . Black-billed MagpieYellow-billed MagimePhocbe Blue-fronted JayWood Pewee 21 VESPER SPARROW (Pooecetesgramineus and subspecies) Length, about 6 inches. Its white-tippedouter tail feathers distinguish this individualfrom its brown Hveried fellows. Range: Breeds from southern Canada southto Oregon, Arizona, Texas. Kentucky, Vir-ginia, and North Carolina; winters from south-ern California. Texas. Missouri, and NorthCarolina south to the Gulf coast and southernMexico. There is little about this brown-streakedsparrow to attract attention and, until it fliesand displays the white-tipped tail feathers, youmight mistake the bird for any one of a halfdozen of the sparrow family. Indeed, if onecatches merely a glimpse of a vesper sparrowcrouched low and running swiftly through thegrass one may be forgiven for mistaking thebird for a mouse. It frequents open pasturesand when singing likes to mount a rockyboulder so common in New England and otherparts of the east. We are perhaps justified incalli
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