98 THE Birps Azsour Us. 
“a lively, agreeable song, fine and clear, and frequently heard 
from a score or more of birds at once, with a most pleasing effect. 
While his mate is sitting, the male sings almost constantly through- 
out the day, and sometimes even late into the evening.” 
The more abundant and better known Peabody- 
bird, or White-throated Sparrow, scarcely calls for 
Ws special notice. Everybody seems to know 
be it, and to know all about it. In summer 
it is a New England bird, and in autumn 
it comes by the hundreds into the 
Middle States and southward. A 
great many stay all winter in 
Southern New Jersey, and there 










are few thickets of greenbrier 
in sheltered places on the 
% east shore of the Delaware 
River but harbor some of 
these) birds...) | hey, ane 
always perched on com- 
fortable twigs, and when 
| out on half a dozen in a 
row their whistling QQ commences. 
Very different is the “@™ active Tree-sparrow that 
comes down from the far north, and is so abundant 
in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from November 
until April. They are as active as the white-throats 
are lazy, and keep up a merry twitter while seed- 
hunting. They are always in large, loose flocks, and 

White-throated Sparrow. 
the sun does shine ' 
when you startle one he will give a shrill alarm-cry, 
and a hundred that you did not see will start up out 
of the dead grass and weeds, and every one will sing 
after its fashion. This bird has ever been a favorite 
