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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 chestnut; breast and sides of the neck pale ash; 
bill in winter black, in summer the lower mandible flesh co- 
loured; rump dark ash; belly and vent white; back variegated 
with black and bright bay; wings black, broadly edged with 
bright chestnut; tail dusky, forked, and slightly edged with pale 
ochre; legs and feet a pale flesh colour. The female differs in 
having less black on the frontlet, and the bay duller. Both lose 
the black front in moulting. 
