384 SPARROWS AND FINCHES. 



N. A. from Mass, north to Labrador and 

 Newfoundland; winters from Middle States 

 (occasionally from Mass.) to Fla.; south in 

 Oct., north in April. Frequents swampy 

 thickets which border large marshes. Song, 

 an explosive, loud trill; in autumn a low 

 murmuring warble. Nests on trassocks in 

 open marshes. 



431. FOX SPARROW. 



Larger, 7.25, longer wings, tail a little 

 rounded; yellow-red above, white beneath, 

 heavily streaked on both surfaces with dark 

 red-brown, spottings often as in Song Spar- 

 row, fig. 307. Breed from islands in Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence, northward to Arctic (rarely 

 in northern Me); winters from Mass, to Fla., 

 south in Oct., north in April. Frequents 

 thickets, feeding on ground, scratches much 

 among leaves, etc. Songs begins loud and 

 clear with three double notes, ending with 

 two, the last ascendent, wil-lie,wil-lie,wil-lie 

 work you, one of the finest of our sparrow 



