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WITH BROWN PREDOMINATING 99% 
quents the thickets, keeping on rather than i the bushes. 
Other varieties, especially white crowned and gambeli, are 
_ often found in a flock of the Goldens, and are evidently 
received into the freemasonry of good-fellowship. Their 
food is chiefly weed seeds and winter berries, but insects 
are also eaten, and occasionally caterpillars. 
560a. WESTERN CHIPPING SPARROW. — Spizella 
socialis arizona. 
Famity: The Finches, Sparrows, ete. 
Length : 5.00-6.00. 
Adults: Back light brown, narrowly streaked with black ; rump and 
tail gray ; top of head reddish brown, sometimes streaked with ashy 
and dark; forehead black, with short white median line; super- 
ciliary line white ; narrow line through the eye black ; sides of head 
gray ; under parts gray, whiter on chest, and throat unstreaked ; bill 
black. 
Young: Top of head streaked brown and black ; breast streaked. 
Geographical Distribution: Western North America, east to Rocky 
Mountains, north to beyond latitude 60° in summer ; south in. winter 
to Southern Mexico. 
California Breeding Range: Upper Sonoran to Boreal zone, nearly 
throughout the State. 
Breeding Season: May and June. 
Nest: Of fine grasses ; lined smoothly with horsehair ; placed in bushes 
or small trees. 
Eggs: 3 to 5; light greenish blue, speckled around the larger end with 
black and brown. 
THe Chipping Sparrow, or Hair Bird, is the universal 
favorite of the sparrow family. No other is so confiding, 
so trustful, building his nest in the fruit tree near the 
dooryard, or in the evergreen on the lawn, or even in 
a large rosebush. I have found him weaving his dainty 
hair-lined cradle in the same bush in which a thrasher 
was rearing his brood. The wee sparrow mother had 
