Brown, Olive or Grayish Brown, and Brown and Gray Sparrowy Birds 
attentions of so fine-looking and sweet-voiced alover. The black, 
white, and yellow markings on his head are now clear and beau- 
tiful. His figure is plump and aristocratic. 
These sparrows are particularly sociable travellers, and cor- 
dially welcome many stragglers to their flocks—not during the 
migrations only, but even when winter's snow affords only the 
barest gleanings above it. Then they boldly peck about the 
dog’s plate by the kitchen door and enter the barn-yard, calling 
their feathered friends with a sharp ¢seep to follow them. Seeds 
and insects are their chosen food, and were they not well wrapped 
in an adipose coat under their feathers, there must be many a 
winter night when they would go shivering, supperless, to their 
perch. 
In the dark of midnight one may sometimes hear the white- 
throat softly singing in its dreams. 
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