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FIELD SPARROW. 
dom injuring the property of the farmer. In the dreary season 
of winter some of them enliven the prospect by hopping fami- 
liarly about our doors, humble pensioners on the sweepings of 
the threshold. 
The present species has never before, to my knowledge, been 
figured. It is five inches and a quarter long, and eight inches 
broad; bill and legs a reddish cinnamon colour; upper part of 
the head deep chestnut, divided by a slight streak of drab wid- 
ening as it goes back; cheeks, line over the eye, breast and sides 
under the wings a brownish clay colour, lightest on the chin, 
and darkest on the ear feathers; a small streak of brown at the 
lower angle of the bill; back streaked with black, drab, and 
bright bay, the latter being generally centered with the former; 
rump dark drab, or cinereous; wings dusky black, the primaries 
edged with whitish, the secondaries bordered with bright bay; 
greater wing coverts black, edged and broadly tipt with brown- 
ish white; tail dusky black, edged with clay colour: male and 
female nearly alike in plumage; the chestnut on the crown of the 
male rather brighter. 
