FAMILY Fringillide. 
to note that it is at the very limit of the piano keyboard— 
and beyond. 
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The bird always sings from the ground and stretehes his 
neck to the uttermost limit in the effort to make his 
pianissimo tones carry as far as they might from a tree top 
which never seems to be at his disposal. Bradford Torrey 
calls his song ‘‘microphonie.”’ 
Tree Sparrow The Tree Sparrow, sometimes called the 
ag: ae Winter Chippy, is a common Winter visitant 
Piginches of the more northerly States. It makes its 
Winter appearance in the early autumn and passes 
northward again about the middle of April. Its range 
extends from Great Bear Lake and northern Ungava to 
Great Slave Lake, northern Quebee and Newfoundland. 
It winters from southern Minnesota, Ontario, and Nova 
Scotia to Arkansas and South Carolina.* The coloring 
of the Tree Sparrow resembles that of the common Chip- 
ping Sparrow; crown chestnut red, a ruddy stripe back of 
the eye, a similar spot or area on either side of the breast 
near the wing-shoulder, a broad gray stripe over the eye, 
the sides of the head and the neck mostly mouse gray, back 
striped with burnt sienna brown, sepia and buffish white, 
two conspicuous dull white wing-bars, lower back and tail 
umber brown, under parts gray-white, with a black sepia 
blotch in the centre of the breast; upper mandible dark 
horn brown, the lower yellow at the base. Nest and egg 
similar to those of the Chipping Sparrow. 
The notes of the Tree Sparrow (particularly a number of 
the birds together) are like the jingling of sleigh bells. 
The song begins with a series of swinging tones like those 
of the Canary, quickens as it progresses, and ends in a loud 
and jubilant trill, that is, a single reiterated, glassy-toned 
note, not the true trill which is a rapid alternation of twa 
* Birds of New York. Elon Howard Eaton. 
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