THE ENGLISH SPAKTIOW AND TTS ALLIES 285 



mentioned the crossbills, 1 yellow-bird, vesper-sparrow, 

 white-throated sparrow, tree -sparrow, dripping-sparrow, 2 

 snow-bird, song-sparrow, fox-sparrow, chewink, cardinal 

 grosbeak, rose-breasted grosbeak, and indigo-bird. Most 

 of these birds are known to every country boy. 



The family of Turdidae, or thrushes, includes several 

 common American birds, the robin, abundant about 



FIG. 2fi5. Chipping-sparrow (Sp/.zella socialis). 



houses during the summer but for the most part migrat- 

 ing south from New England during the winter ; the wood 

 or song thrush, 3 one of our finest songsters ; the bluebird, 

 one of the earliest of our migrants, with " the sky on its 

 back and the earth on its breast." 



The family of Sylviidae comprises the " warblers " of the 

 Old World'. Here belongs the European nightingale. Its 

 common representative in this country is the ruby-crowned 

 kinglet (Fig. 267). 



1 Fig. 264. 2 p ig< 265. 3 Fig. 266. 



