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B. (2) Small birds with the sparrow bill. 

 Breast streaked. 



a. Flight nervous, jerky. Common every- 



where. Song bright and cheerful. Song 

 Sparrow. 



b. Tail shorter than m a\ a line over each 



eye and through the crown. Lives in 

 grassy fields. Song weak. Savanna 

 Sparrow. (See also Gray Birds.) 

 Breast not streaked. 



a. Tail long, notched ; breast ashy gray. 



Crown chestnut ; black line through eye. 

 Common about dooryards ; not at all shy. 

 Chipping Sparrow. 



b. Throat whitish ; breast grayish ; crown 



and wings chestnut in spring. Lives in 

 swampy places ; rather shy. Swamp 

 Sparrow. 



c. Bill light-colored ; breast buffy-white. Lives 



in bushy pastures. Field Sparrow. 



d. Bill stout ; throat (in male) black ; wing bars 



white ; sides of head chestnut. (Female 

 brown above, dirty white below.) Com- 

 mon in city and village streets. English 

 Sparrow. 



C. Fawn-colored. Black line through the eye ; tail tipped 



with yellow. Often shows a crest. Cedar Bird. 



D. Brownish-olive. Under parts white, streaked with black. 



Walks. Common in woodland. Ovenbird. 



