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563 Spizella pusilla (Wilson). 



Field Sparrow. 



PLATE 57. 



Adults. — Length, 5.25-6. Wing, 2.50. Above, grayish-brown, tinged with 

 rusty ; back streaked with chestnut and black, head rusty with a median gray 

 stripe ; wings edged with rusty brown, tail with gray ; two bufify wing bars ; 

 lower parts, pale grayish, tinged with buff on breast and sides ; more rusty 

 above in winter and lower surface much more buff ; bill, cinnamon rufous. 



Young in first summer. — Duller than the adults, with breast and sides streaked 

 with dusky. 



Nest of grass in a low bush or on the ground ; eggs, four to five, bluish- 

 white, thickly speckled with ru-sty markings, .65 x .50. 



Common summer resident. Arrives March 4th (March 19th), de- 

 parts J!^ovember 1st. In southern counties it is a tolerably common 

 winter resident, often mingling with the Tree Sparrows, and a rare 

 winter resident in tlie north — Englewood^ and Plainfield.- 



The Field Sparrow is the representative of the Chippy in the old 

 fields and borders of woods and thickets. Of the same size and slender 

 build, it is distinguished by its more rusty coloration, the absence of 

 a distinct crown patch and the reddish instead of black bill. 



The song of the Field Sparrow is a plaintive strain, beginning slowly 

 and becoming more rapid until it dies away in a trill — fee-o, fee-o, 

 fee-o, few-few-few tr-r-r-r-r; while subject to some variation the same 

 general character is maintained. 



In the swamps of the southern half of the State a certain number 

 of Field Sparrows winter regularly, sometimes in little bands by them- 

 selves, sometimes mingled with Tree Sparrows, Juncos, etc. 



567 Junco hyemalis (Linnseus). 

 Slate-colored Junco. Snowbird. 



PLATE 58. 



Adult male. — Length, 5.50-6.25. Wing, 3. Upper parts, slate color, darkest 

 on the head, wings and tail, which are blackish-slate ; outer tail feathers, 

 white ; next one, white, with terminal streaks of slate, the third, slate, with a 



^ Chapman, Abst. Proc. Linn. Soc, N. Y., V., p. 3, and Bird Lore, Christmas 

 List, February, 1901. 



- Chapman, Birds Vicinity 2\. Y., p. 65. 



