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dwelling, streaky-brown bird, similar in coloring to the song 

 sparrow, excepting that the breast is unstreaked. It is a little 

 smaller in size, and 

 has no such power of 

 song. Its notes con- 

 sist of a repetition 

 of tweet-tweet, with but 

 little if any change of 

 pitch. 



Length, 5|; wing, 2| 

 (21-21) ; tail, 2\ ; cul- 

 men, nearly L North 

 America from the Plains 

 eastward; breeding from 

 Virginia northward, and 

 wintering from Massa- 

 chusetts to the Gulf 

 States. 



Swamp Sparrow 



41. Fox Sparrow (585. Passerella iUaca). — A large, spotted- 

 breasted, rusty-red sparrow, with much bright chestnut on wings, 

 tail, and cheeks. The middle of the belly is unspotted white. 

 In the autumn and early spring, during migrations, this bird is 

 found among shrubbery in flocks, and at those times, but more 

 especially in spring, it shows more than the usual power of 



song of sparrows. 



Length, 7 ; wing, 3| 

 (34-3|) ; tail, 2|; tarsus, 

 1 ; culnien, i. North 

 America from the Plains 

 eastward ; breeding north 

 of the United States, and 

 wintering mainly south 

 of the Potomac and Ohio 

 rivers. 



^"^^P'^""" 42. Texas Sparrow 



(586. Arremonops rufivircjMa).—K southwestern olive-green- 

 backed, brownish-white-breasted sparrow, with a striped head 

 and bright-yellow edge to the wing. The crown has two chest- 



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