Identifier: birdlifeguidetos00chapman (find matches)
Title: Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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The eggs, four or five in numl)er, are bluishwhite, thickly marked with reddish ))rown. The SongSparrow rears three broods each year, the nesting seasonlasting from May to August. The Swamp Sparrow, a wxll-named cousin of the Song Sparrow, resembles his relative in his fondness for Swamp Sparrow, the vicinity of water and habit of tak- Meioxpiza geovgiana. ing refuge in low cover. He is a true Plate XLIT. marsli or swamp bird, and is particu- larly abundant in large marshes. His call is an insig-nificant cheep^ while his song is a simple, sweet, but rathermonotonous tweet-tweet-tweet, repeated many times andoccasionally running into a trill. The Swamp Sparrow nests from northern Illinoisand Pennsylvania northward to Labrador. Its nest andeggs resemble those of the Song Sparrow. It is migra-tory in the northern part of the range, and is rare in win-ter north of southern Xew Jersey. Both the Song and Swamp Sparrow are, as we haveseen, birds of the lowlands, though the latter also inhab-
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Plate XLIII. FIELD SPARROW. Length, 570 inches. Upper parts bright reddish brown and black ; underparts grayish white ; bill reddish brown. 181 182 FIELD SPARROW. its higher ground, but the two Sparrows now to be men-tioned are birds of the uplands, rarely if ever living inlow, wet places. An old hillside pasture, dotted with young cedars or clumps of bushes, in which he may place his nest, is the Field Sparrow favorite home of the Field Sparrow. S2/u<ina. Here you may look for him early in riate XLiii. April. He is a rather shy bird, whowill fly some distance when alarmed, and then alight ona bare twig near or at the top of some bush or sapling.Yery different this from the Song Sparrows way of div-ing into a bush. From his exposed position he watches you and givesyou an equally good chance to watch him. Note thewdiitish, unstreaked breast, the reddish brown or sorrelcrown, the gray face and whitish ring about the eye, andespecially the pale brownish or flesh-colored

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