Perching Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked. 



536. Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lapponicus). L. 



6.2 Hind toe-nail as long as or longer than toe; two 

 outer tail-feathers with white at the end. Ad. J\ sum- 

 mer. Nape chestnut; crown, cheeks, throat and upper- 

 breast black; back black margined with rusty brown. 

 Ad. Q , summer. Crown and back black margined 

 with rusty; nape brighter; below whitish; breast feath- 

 ers dusky at base; sides streaked with blackish. Win- 

 ter^ c?. Black areas and nape veiled with whitish or 

 buffytips; 9 , like 9 in summer. 



Range.— Breeds in northern Europe and northeast North America 

 south to northern Labrador; in America, winters south, irregularly, to 

 South Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas, Texas; west to Manitoba. 

 (Ridgw.) 



536a. Alaskan Longspur (C. /. alascensis). Simi- 

 lar to No. 536, but margins to back feathers much 

 paler, brownish gray or buffy; nape in winter more 

 buffy. Notes. Song, uttered on wing as bird with up- 

 stretched wings floats downward, sweet, liquid, tink- 

 ling, of same general character as that of Bobolink, 

 but shorter, less powerful. (Nelson.) 



Range. — Breeds in Alaska, A eutian and Pnbilof Islands east to Fort 

 Simpson; winters south to eastern Oregon, Colorado, and western 

 Kansas. (Ridgw.) 



553. Harris Sparrow {Zonotrichia querula). L. 

 7.5. Ad. summer. Throat and crown black; nape 

 chestnut, cheeks brownish; two white wing-bars. 

 Ads. winter. Throat mottled with white, crown tipped 

 with grayish. Notes, A queer, chuckling note; song 

 of pleasing, plaintive whistling notes in musical tone 

 like those of No. 558, but delivered in a different song. 

 (Cooke.) 



Range.— Interior of North America; from Illinois west to the Dako- 

 tas; in summer, the region west of Hudson Bay (exact breeding range 

 unknown); south in winter to Texas (and Mexico?) ; accidental in 

 British Columbia, Oregon and California. 



565. Black-chinned Sparrow (Spi{ella atrogularis). 

 L. 5.7. Below slaty gray. Ad. tf- Throat and 

 front of face black; rest of head and underparts slaty 

 gray, the belly whitish; back reddish brown narrowly 

 streaked with black. Ad. 9, Throat with little or 

 no black; crown washed with brownish. Yng. Simi- 

 lar to Ad. 9 , but never with black on throat; crown 

 more heavily washed with brownish. Notes. Song 

 said to resemble that of No. 563. (Bailey.) 



Range.- Mexico and southwestern United States; breeds from 

 southern New Mexico and southern California southward; winters 

 south into Mexico and southern Lower California. 



—English Sparrow (Passer domesticus). L. 6.3. 

 Ad. (j\ Throat and upper breast black; crown slate', 

 band behind eye and on nape chestnut. Ad. 9- 

 Below dirty white; crown and rump dingy grayish 

 brown; back streaked with black and rusty brown; a 

 buffy stripe behind eye. Yng. tf. Similar to Ad. 

 but throat and head tipped with brownish gray. Notes. 

 Harsh and discordant. 



Range. -Introduced into America from Europe in 1851 and later 

 dates; now distributed throughout the greater part of the United 



States. 



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