Perching Birds Chiefly Brown or Streaked 



536. Lapland Longspur (Calcarim lappomcus). L. 

 6.3 Hind toe-nail as long as or longer than tue; two 

 outer tail-feathers with white at ths md. Ad, ^, sum- 

 mer. Nape chestnut; crown, cheeks, throat and upper- 

 breast blaclc; bacit black margined wilh rusly brown. 

 Ad. 9 1 summer. Crown and back black margined 

 with rusty; nape brighter," below whitish; breast feath- 

 ers dusky at base; sides streaked with blackish. IFin- 

 ier, (f . Black areas and nape veiled with whitish or 

 buftytips: $,like ? in summer. 



Range.— Breeds In norihern Europe and northeast North America 

 south to northern Labrador; In America, winters suuih, Irregularly, in 

 South Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas, Te;ias; west to Maniiohs. 

 IRIdew.) 



536a. Alaskan Longspur (C. / alasce^m). Simi- 

 lar to No, 536, but margins to back feathers much 

 paler, brownish gray or buffy; nape in winter more 

 buffy. NoUs. Song, uttered on wing as bird with up- 

 stretched wings floats downward, sweet, liquid, tink^ 

 ling, of same general character as that of Bobolink, 

 butshorter, lesspowerfu!. (Nelson.) 



Range-— Breeds In Alaska, Aleutian and Pribllof Islands east to Fort 

 Simpson; winters south to eastern Oregon, Colorado, and western 

 Kansas. (Ridgw.) 



553. Harris Sparrow {ZonatricMa queruln). ]_. 

 7.5. Ad. sumnur. Throat and crown Ijlack; nape 

 chestnut, cheeks brownish; two white wing-bars. 

 Ads, winter. Throat mottled with white, crown tipped 

 with grayish. Notes. A queer, chuckling note; song 

 of pleasing, plaintive whistling notes in musical tone 

 like those of No. 558, but delivered in a different song. 

 (Cooke.) 



Range — Interior nf North Amertra; from lllInnN WPst to the Dako- 

 ti5^; In summer, the region west of Hudson Bay (exart hree.iing rang* 

 unknown); souiH In winter to Texas (and Mexico?) ; accidental in 

 British Columbia. Oregon and California. 



565. Black-chinned Sparrow [Spii;ella atrogularis). 

 L. 5.7. Below slaty gray. Ad. ^. Throat and 

 front of face J/«c^; rest of head and underparts slaty 

 gray, the belly whitish; back reddish brown narrowly 

 streaked with black. Ad. $, Throat with little or 

 no black; crown washed with brownish. Yng. Simi- 

 lar to Ad. 9 , but never with black on throat; crown 

 more heavily washed with brownish. Notss. Song 

 said to resemble that of No. 563. (Bailey.) 



Range.- Mexico and southwestern United States; breeds from 

 suulhtrn Nifw Mi^jeIlu and southern California southward; winters 

 south Into Mexico and southern Lower CHlifuinla. 



— English Sparrow (Passer domesticus), L. 6.3. 

 Ad. c?. Throat and upper breast black; crown slate; 

 band behind eye and on nape chestnut. Ad. 9- 

 Below dirty white; Crown and rump dingy grayish 

 brown; back Streaked with black and rusty brown; a 

 buffy stripe behind eye. Yng. (^. Similar to Ad. 

 but throat and head tipped with brownish gray. Ndtes. 

 Harsh and discordant. 



Range.— Introduced Into America from Europe In 1851 and later 

 dates; now distributed throughout the greater part of tbe United 

 Stales. 



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