60 Birds of Canada. 



Jiinco hy emails, The Snow Bird. 



The general color of this bird is grayish or 

 ashy-black ; the breast, belly, and second exter- 

 nal tail feathers, white ; the third tail feather, 

 white, margined with black. Length, six inches. 

 This well-known bird arrives here in large flocks 

 during the winter, and is quite tame. Their 

 migrations extend from the arctic circle to the 

 Gulf of Mexico. Numbers of these birds remain 

 here through the summer ; they build their nests 

 in stumps, or in a clump of moss ; eggs, white, 

 spotted with reddish-brown and grayish-white. 

 There is a widespread impression that the Snow 

 Bird of winter is the Chipping Sparrow of the 

 summer. I am satisfied it is a mistake. The 

 Chipping Sparrow differs in plumage and size 

 from the Snow Bird. 



Spizella monticola. The Tree Sparrow. 



The Tree Sparrow is six and a-quarter inches 

 long ; the feathers of the back, dark brown 

 centrally, then rufous, edged with white. The 

 head, chestnut ; the under parts are white, with 

 a blotch of brown on the chest. This bird 

 breeds in the northern forests. 



S.pusilla. The Field Sparrow. 



The Field Sparrow arrives here about the 

 twentieth of April. Inhabits the pastures and 



