FIELD KEY TO THE LAND
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BIRD?;.
ing near the barn or roadside, and building his nest in Winters in the Soutli. bushes.
83.
FIELD SPARROW.
Spizella
pusiUa.—
Length, 5f inches. Front of head light; top of head, cheek, and back, red-brown; underparts gray and whitish, huffish on ])reast and sides l)ill light-colored; Resembles the C'lii[)py, l)iit withtail coverts brown. out black lines anywhere on the head. His favorite grounds are gardens, pastures, and edges of fields, where he breeds among the shrubs along the fences. He is not a true field-sparrow, like the various species A summer bird, wintering in the of Ammodramus. South. 84. JUNCO. SNOWBIRD. Junco hy emails.— Length, GJ inches. Head and neck slate gray back brown and black underparts and outer tail-feathers The Junco breeds to the north, and in winter white. comes to us in flocks, feeding at l)arn doors and along
the roadsides.
S5. SONG SPARROW. Melospiza fascia fa. Length, GJ inches. Head and back gray, red-brown, and black; two conspicuous black streaks from the underparts white sides bill downward on each side bufBsh with broad black and red-brown streaks. This sparrow is the well-known singer on roadsides and the edges of woods. A summer bird, sometimes staying
winter.
all
86.
—
SWAMP SPARROW.
Melospiza geor-
Length, 6 inches. Forehead black top of giana. head, back, wings, and tail red-brown, streaked on the back with buff and black; underparts grayish, not streaked throat and belly light breast brow^nish. The
favorite haunts of this sparrow are wet meadows and sumreed-swamps ; he is rarely found elsewhere.
A
mer
bird,
wintering South.
LINCOLN'S SPARROW,
a
Western
species, has
sometimes been seen here during the migrations. has fine streaks on breast and sides.
It
