iBrown, Olive or Grayish Brown, and Brown and Gray Sparrowy Birds 



attentions of so fine-looking and sweet-voiced a lover. The black, 

 white, and yellow markings on his head are now clear and beau- 

 tiful. His figure is plump and aristocratic. 



These sparrows are particularly sociable travellers, and cor- 

 dially welcome many stragglers to their flocks— not during the 

 mio-rations only, but even when winter's snow affords only the 

 barest gleanings above it. Then they boldly peck about the 

 dog's plate by the kitchen door and enter the barn-yard, calling 

 their feathered friends with a sharp tseep to follow them. Seeds 

 and insects are their chosen food, and were they not well wrapped 

 in an adipose coat under their feathers, there must be many a 

 winter night when they would go shivering, supperless, to their 

 perch. 



In the dark of midnight one may sometimes hear the white- 

 throat softly singing in its dreams. 



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