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V TREE SPARROW 

 Spizella monticola monticola. Case 2, Fig. 44; Case 4, Fig. 46 



A dusky spot in the center of the breast and a reddish brown 

 cap and streak behind the eye are distinguishing characters. 

 L. 6}. 



Range. Nests in Canada; winters from southernJCanada south 

 to Arkansas and South Carolina. 



Washington, abundant W. V., Oct.-Apl. I. Ossining, common 

 W. V., Oct. 10-Apl. 27. Cambridge, common W. V., abundant 

 T. V., Oct. 25-Nov. 25; Mch. 20-Apl. 20. N. Ohio, abundant 

 W. V., Oct. 24-May 3. Glen Ellyn, common W. V., Oct. 4- 

 Apl. 28. SE. Minn., common T. V., Oct. 6-May 5; a few 

 winter. 



From October to April companies of Tree Sparrows 

 harvest the season's crop of weed seeds, feeding usually 

 near woods or hedge-rows to which they go to rest and 

 roost. Their merry chatter is one of the season's most 

 cheerful notes, and in the spring we may hear their 

 eanary-like song. 



k/ CHIPPING SPARROW 

 Spizella passerina passerina. Case 4, Fig. 45; Case 5. Fig. 31 



In summer, the chestnut cap, black bill, and whitish line over 

 the eye mark the ' Chippy ' ; but in the fall and winter the crown 

 is like the back, the line over the eye is brownish, and the bill 

 is brown; but the gray rump, shown well in flight, is a good 

 character the year around. L. si. 



Range. Nests from Georgia and Mississippi to Canada; win- 

 ters from South Carolina to the Gulf. 



Washington, common S. R., abundant T. V., Mch. o-Nov. 11, 

 occasionally winters. Ossining, common S. R., Apl. o-Nov. 7. 

 Cambridge, abundant S. R., Apl. 12-Oct. 25. N. Ohio, abundant 

 S. R., Mch. 23-Oct. 10. Glen Ellyn, not very common S. R., 

 Apl. s-Nov. 5. SE. Minn., common S. R., Apl. 8-Oct. 26. 



The friendly Chippy is the most familiar and domestic 

 of any of our native Sparrows. He makes tentative 

 visits to our piazzas and, cats permitting, will take up 

 his residence there, building a neat, hair-lined nest in the 

 rines or a nearby bush. Unassuming in voice as he is in 



