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to note that it is at the very limit of the piano keyboard 

 and beyond. 



Presto.Thrice 



The bird always sings from the ground and stretches his 

 neck to the uttermost limit in the effort to make his 

 pianissimo tones carry as far as they might from a tree top 

 which never seems to be at his disposal. Bradford Torrey 

 calls his song "microphonic." 



Tree Sparrow The Tree Sparrow, sometimes called the 

 Spizella Winter Chippy, is a common Winter visitant 



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L. 6.35 inches * ^ e more northerly States. It make* its 

 Winter appearance in the early autumn and passes 



northward again about the middle of April. Its range 

 extends from Great Bear Lake and northern Ungava to 

 Great Slave Lake, northern Quebec and Newfoundland. 

 It winters from southern Minnesota, Ontario, and Nova 

 Scotia to Arkansas and South Carolina.* The coloring 

 of the Tree Sparrow resembles that of the common Chip- 

 ping Sparrow; crown chestnut red, a ruddy stripe back of 

 the eye, a similar spot or area on either side of the breast 

 near the wing-shoulder, a broad gray stripe over the eye, 

 the sides of the head and the neck mostly mouse gray, back 

 striped with burnt sienna brown, sepia and buffish white, 

 two conspicuous dull white wing-bars, lower back and tail 

 umber brown, under parts gray-white, with a black sepia 

 blotch in the centre of the breast; upper mandible dark 

 horn brown, the lower yellow at the base. Nest and egg 

 similar to those of the Chipping Sparrow. 



The notes of the Tree Sparrow (particularly a number of 

 the birds together) are like the jingling of sleigh bells. 

 The song begins with a series of swinging tones like those 

 of the Canary, quickens as it progresses, and ends in a loud 

 and jubilant trill, that is, a single reiterated, glassy-toned 

 note, not the true trill which is a rapid alternation of two 



Birds of New York. 



Elon Howard Eaton. 

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