TREE SPARROW. 
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part of the head, deep chestnut, divided by a slight streak of 
drab, widening 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 
centred 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 brownish 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. 
TREE SPARROW FRINGILLA ARBOREA. 
Plate XVI. Fig. 3. 
Le Soulciet, Buff. iii. 500. — Moineau de Canada, Briss. iii. ] 01. PI. enl. 223. — 
Lath. ii. 252. — Edw. 269. — Arct. Zool. p. 373. No. 246 Peale's Museum, 
No. 6575. 
EMBERIZA CANADENSIS. — Swainson. 
Fringilla Canadensis, Bonap. Synop. p. 109. — Emberiza Canadensis, North. Zool. 
ii. p. 252. 
This Sparrow is a native of the north, who takes up his 
winter quarters in Pennsylvania, and most of the northern 
states, as well as several of the southern ones. He arrives 
here about the beginning of November, and leaves us again 
early in April ; associates in flocks with the Snow Birds ; 
frequents sheltered hollows, thickets, and hedgerows, near 
springs of water ; and has a low warbling note, scarcely audible 
at the distance of twenty or thirty yards. If disturbed, he takes 
to trees, like the White-throated Sparrow, but contrary to 
the habit of most of the others, who are inclined rather to dive 
into thickets. Mr Edwards has erroneously represented this 
as the female of the Mountain Sparrow ; but that judicious 
