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much more so than the females or than their sparrow 
cousins in general. 
In the song sparrow, field sparrow, chipping spar- 
row, and the fox sparrow the male and female are 
very nearly alike in color. It often becomes neces- 
sary for the bird-man to examine the internal organs 
of the bird he is stuffing before he can certainly de- 
cide its sex. But there is no difficulty whatever in 
telling the male from the female of the English spar- 
row. ‘The male is far the more ornate bird. His 
back is striped with a richer brown; his head has two 
splendid dashes of chestnut over the eyes; his throat 
and breast are splashed with red and lustrous black; 
his bill is a clear fine black. Altogether the bird is 
strikingly colored for a sparrow, and this characteris- 
tic is the more remarkable when we see how quiet and 
somber is his more modest mate. This brilliancy of 
male plumage in the presence of the somber color of 
his mate would seem to indicate that the English spar- 
row is eye-minded rather than ear-minded. It is true 
among human beings that most of them are eye- 
minded. That is to say, they notice things with their 
eyes chiefly. Memories they have are memories of 
things seen; recollections of their friends bring up 
the appearance of their friends. Their language is 
full of metaphors which imply form and shape. But 
occasionally we come across an ear-minded person. 
