Identifier: birdlore101908nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ful ditty from the alders—With sweet,sweet, sweet and very merry cheer! before his cousin the Goldfinch hasdonned his yellow spring jacket with black sleeves and cap, or the tremolo ofthe gentle soft-eyed Chipping Sparrow is heard from the grass before dawn. Our Song Sparrow is one of the little group of birds that may be calledwinter residents in the middle New England states. This does not mean that-all of these Sparrows remain the entire season in their summer„ an nesting haunts, for even the hardiest birds shift about in the Range ° winter season. The Song Sparrows we see from November to-March are apt to be those that have summered considerably farther northward;,thus, some of the birds that bred in the region of Quebec would be likely to winterin Massachusetts, while the Massachusetts birds would come on to Connecti-cut, New York, Pennsylvania, and so on. Neither will the Sparrows be foundso plentiful even in the middle parts of their range as in summer, as by far the (9°)
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