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CHIPPING SPARROW. 



The Chipping Sparrow is five inches and a quarter long, and 

 eight inches in extent; frontlet black ; chin and line over the eye 

 whitish; crown chesnut; breast and sides of the neck pale ash; 

 bill in winter black, in summer the lower mandible flesh colored ; 

 rump dark ash; belly and vent white; back variegated with black 

 and bright bay; wings black, broadly edged with bright chesnut; 

 tail dusky, forked, and slightly edged with pale ochre; legs and 

 feet a pale flesh color. The female differs in having less black on 

 the frontlet, and the bay duller. Both lose the black front in 

 moulting. 



