THE FIELD SPARRi W, 



No. 36. 

 FIELD SPARROW. 



A. ( ). I". No. 563. Spizella pusilla iW'ils.). 



Description. — .LI nils: Crown dull chestnut with a slight admixture of 

 ashy gray; auriculars bordered with chestnut; nape gray; feathers of hack rufous 

 with black central streaks and huffy edgings; wings dusky, the primaries edged 

 with whitish and the rest with rufous, the middle and greater c iverts tipped 

 with white, forming t\\" inconspicuous bar-; tail fuscous; below ashy gray, un- 

 marked save for s 1 i ^ 1 1 1 brownish suffusion of breast and !lanks : bill pale reddish; 

 feet pale. Length 5.25-5.75 (133.3-146.1) ; wing 2.57 (65.3); tail 2.05 (67.3); 

 bill .36 (9.1). 



Recognition Marks. — Warbler size; crown not bright chestnut; bill til 

 pale nddish; unmarked below. This bird has few positive marks, and is oftenest 

 sensed," or determined by elimination. 



Nest, in low bushes or mi the ground, a neat but simple structure of dried 

 grasses, sometimes, but rarely, lined with horse-hairs. Eggs, 3-5, white, bluish- 

 in- pinkish-white, with numerous -nail spots of reddish brown, generally dis- 

 tributed or gathered loosely about larger end. Aw size. .70 x .51 ( 17.8 x 13.). 



General Range. — Eastern United State- and southern Canada, west to the 



