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their arrival. Then there are a few sweet, tremulous trials before the 

 plaintive, sympathetic whistle brings cheer to the browning woods: 



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Few birds are more sociable than the White-throats. At this season 

 they are always in little companies, and they frequently roost together 

 in large numbers in tin- depths of dense thickets or clumps of ever- 

 greens. After they have retired one may hear the sharp chink of their 

 M quarrier " chorus, and when darkness comes, with low, brooding notes 

 of oozy companionship they are hushed for the night. 



659. SpUella monticola '///..'.)- TREE SPARROW; WINTER 

 CHIPPY. Ad. No black on the forehead ; an indiflinct black tpot on tfa 

 eenttr of tke brttut ; top of tlic head rufous-brown, sometimes edged with 

 why ; a gray iah line over Uie eye and a rufous-brown line behind it ; back 

 atraaked with rufous-brown, black, and pale ochroccous-buff; rump pale 

 grayish brown; greater and middle winn-eovi-rt.-* tij>[>f<l with whitv; outer 

 web of the outer tail-feather whitish ; breast gray 5* h white; middle of the 

 belly white; Bides tinged with pale prayish brown; upper mandible black, 

 lower, yellow at the base, the tip black. L., -86; W., 2-99; T., 2-82; B., -41. 



Rang*. Eastern North America; breeds in Labrador and the region 

 about Hudson Bay; south in winter, through eastern United States; west to 

 the edge of the Great Plain*. 



Washington, abundant W. V., Nov. 1 to Apl. 5. Sing Sing, common 

 W. V . ()ct 10 to Apl. 27. Cambridge, common W. V., abundant T. V., Oct 

 *5 to NOT. 26; Mch. 20 to Apl. 80. 



AW<, of grassea, rootlet*, and hair, on or near the ground. " Kggt, four to 

 five, pale green or greenish blue, spotted with reddish brown, -75 x -0" 

 (Chamberlain). 



Tree Sparrows wear a small black dot on the center of their other- 

 wi-e unmarked breasts, a badge which will aid in their identification. 

 They come in flocks when the field-; are hrginning to look brown and 

 dreary, but seem contented with the surroundings from which other 

 birds have fled. 



They feed on the seeds of weeds and grasses*, and even when the 

 snow is deepest always find an abundance of food. I like to see them 

 feasting on the seed stalks above the crn-t. and t<> heiir their chorus of 

 merry, tinkling notes, like sparkling frost crystals turned to music. 



Winter (hippies they are sometimes called, but at this season there 



