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TREE SPARROW. 
and excellent naturalist, Mr Pennant, has given a more correct 
account of it, and informs us, that it inhabits the country 
bordering on Hudson’s Bay during summer ; comes to Severn 
settlement in May ; advances farther north to breed ; and 
returns in autumn on its way southward. It also visits New- 
foundland. * 
By some of our own naturalists, this species has been con- 
founded with the Chipping Sparrow, (fig. 5.) which it very 
much resembles, but is larger and handsomer, and is never 
found with us in summer. The former departs for the south 
about the same time that the latter arrives from the north ; and, 
from this circumstance, and their general resemblance, has 
arisen the mistake. 
The Tree Sparrow is six inches and a half long, and nine 
and a half in extent ; the whole upper part of the head is of a 
bright reddish chestnut, sometimes slightly skirted with gray ; 
from the nostrils, over the eye, passes a white strip, fading 
into pale ash, as it extends back ; sides of the neck, chin, and 
breast, very pale ash ; the centre of the breast marked with 
an obscure spot of dark brown ; from the lower angle of the 
bill proceeds a slight streak of chestnut; sides, under the 
wings, pale brown ; back, handsomely streaked with pale drab, 
bright bay, and black ; lower part of the back and rump, 
brownish drab ; lesser wing-coverts, black, edged with pale ; 
ash ; wings, black, broadly edged with bright bay ; the first ! 
and second row of coverts, tipt with pure white ; tail, black, , 
forked, and exteriorly edged with dull white ; belly and vent* , 
brownish white ; bill, black above, yellow below ; legs, a 
brownish clay colour ; feet, black. The female is about half 
an inch shorter ; the chestnut or bright bay on the wings, 
back, and crown, is less brilliant ; and the white on the coverts 
narrower, and not so pure. These are all the differences I 
can perceive, f 
* Arctic Zoology , vol, ii. p. 373. 
f Peculiar to America, and we should say, going more off from the group 
than F. socialis, Wils. as mentioned by Swainson in the Northern Zoology. — Ed. 
