TREE SPAREOW. 13 



Tree Sparrow. 



Spizella monticola • 

 Plate 11. Fig. I. 



General coloration similar to thai of the Chipping Sparrow, 

 bui larger, wing bars more conspicuous, little or no Llack and 

 white on foreliead, rather more rufous on back, while the ashy 

 Collar is less conspicuous ; beneath the ashy is tinged with 

 reddish, especially on the sides, and there is a conspicuous 

 dark brown spot in the middle of the breast. The base of the 

 under mandible is distinctly orange. 



DfMKNsroxs. J.ength. \>.rA): wing. o.oH: stretch. i'.-V) : tall. 

 lA\i): bid. Ar>: t;irsus, .s:,. 



C(»3iPAKisoNS. Ko other of our Sparrows have the red 

 head combined with the light unstreaked under parts, with 

 its single centnd spot. 



Nests a.nd Eggs. Nests placed in bushes, composed of 

 mud and grass, lined with fine grasses and hair. They are 

 rather shallow. Eggs, four or five in number, oval in form, 

 greenish in color, rather finely spotted with red^lish brown, 

 thus resembling those of the Field Sparrow much more than 

 they do those of the Chipping Sparrow. 



(general IlABirs. The Tree S'parrow is a spring and au- 

 tumn migrant in the northern portion of New England and a 

 winter resident from ^lassachusetts southward as far as the 

 Carulinas, noii- having been known to breod within our lini- 

 irs. 



In autuinn and spring the Tree Sparrows fi'equent shrub- 

 bery along fence rows or low bushes on the borders of v.ood- 

 lands, but in whiter thev are found in tiiick evergreen W'.ods 



