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CHIPPING SPARROW. 
560. Spizella passerina. 5% inches. 
Crown chestnut; forehead black; line through the 
eye black. 
One of the commonest and most useful of our Spar- 
rows, frequenting orchards, yards and bushy pastures. 
They are not at all timid and frequently nest in vines, 
covering porches or the side of the house, provided 
that English Sparrows are not too plenty. They eat 
great quantities of insects and worms, and some seeds, 
feeding their young wholly upon the former. 
Song.—A very rapidly chanted chip, chip, chip, chip, 
continued for several seconds; call, a sharp chip. 
Nest.—A small cup-shaped structure of rootlets, 
lined with horsehair; placed in bushes, trees or vines; 
eges three to five, bluish green, specked, chiefly around 
the large end, with blackish brown (.65 x .50). 
Range.—N. A. east of the Plains, breeding from the 
Gulf of Mexico north to Newfoundland and Hudson 
Bay; winters in the Gulf States. A sub-species is found 
west of the Rockies. 
