384 SPARKOAVS AND FINCHES. 



N. A. from Mass. north to Labrador and 

 Newfoundland; winters from Middle States 

 (occasionally from Mass.) to Fla.; south in 

 Oct., north in April. Frequents swampy 

 thickets which border large marshes. Song, 

 an explosive, loud trill; in autumn a low 

 murmuring warble. Nests on trassocks in 

 open marshes. 



431. FOX SPARROW. 



Larger, 7.25, longer wrings, tail a little 

 rounded; yellows-red above, white beneath, 

 heavily streaked on both surfaces with dark 

 red-brown, spottings often as in Song Spar- 

 row, fig. 307. Breed from islands in Gulf 

 of St. Law^rence, northward to Arctic (rarelj^ 

 in northern Me); w^inters from Mass. to Fla., 

 south in Oct., north in April. Frequents 

 thickets, feeding on ground, scratches much 

 among leaves, etc. Songs begins loud and 

 clear w^ith three double notes, ending with 

 two, the last ascendent, icil-lie,unl-lie, wil-lie 

 toork you, one of the finest of our sparrow 



