50 BIRDS OF FIELD, FOREST AND PARK 



appear during late April or early May, and stay 

 about for a few days in much the same localities 

 frequented by the Fox Sparrows and White- 

 throats, then leisurely journey along, never 

 seeming to be in a hurry. They do not nest in 

 the eastern United States, except perhaps in a 

 few cases on the higher mountains, but journey 

 to Labrador and northern Canada. We see 

 them again in October for two or three weeks, 

 then on they pass to winter in the South. 



Tree Sparrow. The Sparrows we have 

 studied thus far are summer visitors, birds that 

 help to make joyous the season of warm sun- 

 shine and flowers. Now we are to consider 

 briefly a winter visitor whose coming cheers our 

 cold winter season, when even the glimpse of a 

 feathered friend is a rare but welcome sight. 

 This is the Tree Sparrow, or Winter Chippy as 

 he is called because he visits us during the season 

 of frost and snow. Like his namesake of the 

 summer, he wears a pretty chestnut cap, but he 

 is considerably larger, about the size of the 

 Song Sparrow. He does not have the neat, trim 

 look of the Chippy, but is rather rough and 

 fluffy in appearance, perhaps because he wears 

 a much warmer suit to protect him from the 

 chill winds and terrible cold of the long nights. 

 He is a very hardy little fellow, else he would 

 perish from such exposure. 



The back of this Sparrow is brown with dark 

 streaks and the dark wings have two distinct 

 white wing-bars. The cheeks and throat are 

 gray. Perhaps the best field mark is the dark 

 spot in the center of the ashy-gray breast. 



