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AVIFAUNA COLUMBIANA. 



were in existence as a large marshy tract, north of N street, between 

 Fourteenth and Twenty -first, now entirely built up, the birds could always 

 be found in the thick bushes, between the. dates above named. [2G8] 



9.1. (129.) Spizella domestica (Bartr.) Coues. (S. socialis of the original edition.) 

 Chipping Sparrow ; Chip-bird. 



A summer resident, abundant, and half-domesticated, like the House 

 Wren; breeds in orchards, gardens, shrubbery, and vines about houses, 





Fin. 38. — Clrippin<-:' Sparrow. 



&c; but a favorite site for the pretty hair-lined nest is the heart of a 

 cedar-bush. Chippy comes betimes, usually the second week in March, 

 and remains until October 10, when the Snow-birds usually make their 

 appearance. [269] 



06. (130.) Spizella agrestis (Barir.) Cones. Field Sparrow. (S. pusilla of the 

 original edition.) 



Resident all the year round. This humble inhabitant of the bramble 

 and briar is especially abundant in the spring time, less so in summer 

 and autumn ; and in the winter, when probably most individuals move 

 south, is only found occasionally in secluded situations, such as shelter 

 the Song Sparrows and the Tree Sparrows. Its sweet, simple song is 

 occasionally heard in the fall, and very frequently during the spring 

 months. The nest is placed in some low, isolated bush, briar, or weed- 

 patch, in the field, quite close to the ground. One indivdual which we 

 procured was a partial albino, patched here and there with pure white 

 in the midst of normal coloration. [271] 



97. (126.) Zonotrichia albicollis (Gm ) Bj>. White-throated Sparrow. 



This large and handsome species is chiefly a spring and autumn mi- 

 grant, but numbers spend the winter with us in sheltered places. It 

 arrives early in October, and is extremely abundant during that month; 

 then, after the winter decrease, it becomes very numerous again the 

 1st of April, and so continues until May 12, when it departs for its 

 northern summer home. It is mostly gregarious while here, frequent- 

 ing briar-patches, shrubbery, hedges, road-sides, and the like during the 

 fall and winter, but as spring advances it is often seen in open woods 



