336 CHIPPING SPARROW. 



The Chipping Sparrow is five inches and a quarter long, and 

 eight inches in extent; frontlet black; chin and line over the eye 

 whitish; crown chestnut; breast and sides of the neck pale ash; 

 bill in winter black, in summer the lower mandible flesh co- 

 loured; rump dark ash; belly and vent white; back variegated 

 with black and bright bay; wings black, broadly edged with 

 bright chestnut; tail dusky, forked, and slightly edged with pale 

 ochre; legs and feet a pale flesh colour. The female differs in 

 having less black on the frontlet, and the bay duller. Both lose 

 the black front in moulting. 



