A Glimpse of the Birds of Berkeley, 



pitched pipe — tiMit-tit-t rrrrree! but 

 a sweet and characteristic note in our 

 canons. 



As autumn moves on apace the win- 

 ter birds assemble in full force. The 

 golden-crowned sparrows come flocking 

 from their Alaskan and British Colum- 

 bian homes, and the Gambel's white- 

 crowned sparrows from their breeding 

 places in the mountains — the one 

 adorned with a crown of dull gold, 

 black bordered, and the other with a 

 head marked with broad stripes of 

 black and white. Both have backs of 

 streaked brown and gray, and breasts of 

 buflF or ash. They are among our com- 

 monest and most familiar winter resi- 

 dents, dwelling in our gardens as well 

 as in the thickets among the hills, and 

 singing even during the milder rains. 

 The call-note of both species is a lisp- 

 ing tsip^ and their songs have the same 

 quality of tone — a fine, high, long- 

 drawn whistle. I have written down 

 the most usual song of each species 

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