98 Tue Birps Axsout Us. 
“a lively, agreeable song, fine and clear, and frequently heard 
from a score or more of birds at once, with a most pleasing effect. 
While his mate is sitting, the male sings almost constantly through 
out the day, and sometimes even late into the evening.” 
The more abundant and better known Peabody- 
ue or White-throated Sparrow, scarcely calls for 
special notice. Everybody seems to know 
it, and to know all about it. In summer 
it is a New England bird, and in autumn 
it comes by the hundreds into the 
Middle States and southward. A 
great many stay all winter in 
Southern New Jersey, and there 
are few thickets of greenbrier 
in sheltered places on the 
east shore of the Delaware 
River but harbor some of 
these birds. They are 
always perched on com- 
fortable twigs, and when 
out on half a dozen in a 
White-throated Sparrow. 
the sun does shine 
row their whistling i) Oy commences. 
Very different is the" active Tree-sparrow that 
comes down from the far north, and is so abundant 
in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from November 
until April. They are as active as the white-throats 
are lazy, and keep up a merry twitter while seed- 
hunting. They are always in large, loose flocks, and 
when you startle one he will give a shrill alarm-cry, 
and a hundred that you did not see will start up out 
of the dead grass and weeds, and every one will sing 
after its fashion. This bird has ever been a favorite 
