FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS.
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ing South, found in
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Aveeds.
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HENSLOW^S SPARROW. Ammodmmiis
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Length, 5 inches. Head and neck greenbrown, with a broad light line in the middle of back and wings red-brown underparts the head white and baff streaked with black tail-feathers narrow and sharp-pointed. This is another field-sparrow, preferring wet meadows, Avhere he runs mouselike in If obliged to take to his wings he flies the grass. only a short distance before he falls into the grass again and runs. A summer bird, wintering in the hensloivii.
ish
South.
SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. Ammo77. Length, 5| inclies. Greenish dramus eaudacutus. brown above, with a broad buff line over the eye and underparts Avhite around the ear, which is gray
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streaked with black with buff on sides tail-feathers narrow and sharp-pointed. A field sparrow, found in summer bird, wintersalt marshes near the coast. ing in the South. There are varieties of this Sparrow: Nelson's, the western species, is strong buff at the sides with hardly any streaks while the Acadian, the northern species, Avhich passes us in its migrations, is cream buff at the sides, streaked with gray.
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SEASIDE SPARROW. Ammodnwimmar-
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Length, 6 inches. Grayish brown above; itwms. underparts grayish white, streaked indistinctly with gray-brown. Remarkable for his bill, which is large for a sparrow, and for having no red-l)rown on his summer bird, living in salt marshes, more back. numerous to the southward. SPARROW. Zono79. Length, 6^ inches. Head black, trichia Uucophryi^. with a white patch on the top; a broad Avhite line from the eye to the back of the liead, with a similar black one below it neck and underparts gray, buffish at the sides upperpaits gray-broAvn. A winter visitor,
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WHITE-CROWNED
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