110 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. 



are born and grow up in the far north, and are in 

 full plumage when we first see them. 



The golden-crowns are not so numerous as the 

 white-crowns, but always we have a few of them. 



THE FOX-SPARROW. 



They do not sing so constantly with us as the 

 white-crowns. 



The fox-sparrow and the golden-crowns do not 

 appear in large flocks, as do the white-crowns. 



Of all the winter sparrows that come to us, we 

 love the white-crowns best. Some autumn morn- 

 ing in the garden, before the sun is well out of 

 his bed, we hear a sweet song, just five or six 



