CHIPPING SPARROW 14T 



within a few hours the nest is filled with birds 

 daintily clothed in dusky bronze and white, ready 

 to make their first short flight into their treetop 

 world. This striking transformation is one of 

 the interesting features of Cuckoo life. 



Another strange characteristic is their way 

 of traveling at night during migration. They 

 arrive in our latitude about the first of May, and 

 leave at the end of September to spend the win- 

 ter in South America. 



CHIPPING SPAEROW 



The Doorstep Sparrow is John Burroughs 

 name for this gentle, cheerful little chap, and a 

 better could hardly be found. Of the many spe- 

 cies of Sparrows round our homes in the coun- 

 try, this is the only one who is a summer mi- 

 grant, and he so frequently winters with us as 

 almost to be written as a permanent resident. 

 He is smaller in size than the English Sparrow 

 and has no mind for fighting, so that he is no 

 longer to be found in suburbs and thickly settled 

 places, where the larger, bullying Sparrow is in 

 possession of all available nesting places before 

 Chippy's return in the spring. 



He may be readily known in summer by his 

 rufous or rust-colored cap, and by the white line 

 over the eye. In winter this bay cap is changed 

 for a streaked one, and the Chippies flock to the 



