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can readily be induced to eat out of our hands. Such song as 

 it has is an insect-like repetition of its common name of chippy. 

 (Chippy; Hair-bird.) 



Length, 5| ; wing, 2| (2|-2}) ; tail, 2f ; tarsus, f ; culmen, f . Eastern 

 United States ; breeding from the Gulf States to Great Slave Lake, and 

 wintering from the Gulf States to Mexico. 



33. Clay-colored Sparrow (561. Spizella pdllida). — A small, 

 western, pale-colored sparrow, with much gray in its plumage, 

 giving it its common name. Back 

 brownish-gray ; under parts white 

 soiled with gray; sides of head 

 brown, with irregular black and 

 whitish markings ; crown with a 

 pale medium stripe ; rump brown- 

 ish-gray and not slaty-gray. In 

 habits it is like the chipping 

 sparrow but not so confiding and 

 trustful. 



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Length, 5i ; wing, 2| (21-2^) ; tail, 

 2|; culmen, nearly f. Interior North 



Clay-colored Sparrow- 

 America from the Rocky Moun- 

 tains to Illinois; breeding from 

 Iowa northward, and winter- 

 ing from southern Texas into 

 Mexico. 



34. Field Sparrow (563. 

 SpMlla pusilla). Abuffy- 

 breasted, reddish - billed, 

 streaky -backed sparrow, 

 with a dull-chestnut crown 

 and gray line over the eye. 

 The back is brightly 

 marked with black, .red- 

 dish - brown, and ashy, 

 the breast unspotted buff; 

 wings with two white bars. This bird is not an inhabitant 

 of the open fields, but seeks bushy pastures. It is a fine 



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Field Sparrow 



