About the House. 



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The Carolina Snowbird is very similar to the last, and so closely allied 

 as to be regarded as a geographical race. It inhabits the higher mountains of 



t_- . Virginia and North and South Carolina, where it is corn- 

 Carolina Snowbird. . 

 junco hyemaiis caroiinensis men and breeds in numbers. It is rather larger and paler 



than our Snowbird. The head is colored like the rest of 

 the upper parts. The brownish suffusion in the female and immature birds is 

 not so apparent as in the Snowbird. Its method of nidification is identical 

 with that of the common Snowbird, and the eggs are similar. 



This bird is a western form, but has been taken in Illinois, Maryland,. 



the District of Columbia, and Massachusetts. It is very 

 Hybrid Snowbird. ... . . c , . , , , , 



junco hyemaiis connectens hke its near relative our Snowbird, but has a browner 



coues. back, with the sides decidedly brown or pinkish brown of 



a lighter shade. 



One of the most sociable birds about our houses and grounds during the 

 warmer portions of the year is the Chipping Sparrow. Its nesting sites 



Chipping Sparrow. 



Spizella socialis (Wils.). 



are the currant 

 bushes and other 

 shrubbery of our 

 grounds. The 



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vines on the piazza 

 are an invitation 

 to sociability and 

 perhaps protec- 

 tion, which it often 

 accepts in locating 

 his little home and 

 rearing its family. 

 As the bird is so 

 well known to us, 

 so perhaps the 

 nest is, of small nests, the most familiar. Round and rather shallow, it is 



CHIPPING SPARROW. ABOUT THREE WEEKS OLD. 



