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OUR SOUTHERN BIRDS 



fields to live upon weed and grass seeds. The 

 call-note is a soft chip, the song a rapid "chippy- 

 chippy, chippy-chippy ' ' long continued, like an 

 insect's buzzing, not musical at all; but the 



CHIPPING SPARROW 



Length 5% inches 



friendliness of Chippy's disposition atones for 

 his lack as a songster; he needs no special talent 

 to endear him to us all. 



The nest is of grass and rootlets and other 

 fibres, lined with horsehair. The four or five 

 speckled eggs are laid about the first of May, 



