., abundant T.V., Oct. 25-Nov. 25; Mch. 20-Apl.
20. N. Ohio, abundant W.V., Oct. 24-May 3. Glen
Ellyn, common W.V., Oct. 4-Apl. 28. SE. Minn.,
common T.V., Oct. 6-May 5; a few winter.

From October to April companies of Tree Sparrows harvest the season's
crop of weed seeds, feeding usually near woods or hedge-rows to which
they go to rest and roost. Their merry chatter is one of the season's
most cheerful notes, and in the spring we may hear their canary-like
song.

CHIPPING SPARROW

_Spizella passerina passerina. Case 4, Fig. 45; Case 5, Fig. 31_

In summer, the chestnut cap, black bill, and
whitish line over the eye mark the 'Chippy'; but
in the fall and winter the crown is like the back,
the line over the eye is brownish, and the bill is
brown; but the gray rump, shown well in flight, is
a good character the year around. L. 5-1/2.

_Range._ Nests from Georgia and Mississippi to
Canada; winters from South Carolina to the Gulf.

Washington, common S.R., abundant T.V., Mch.
9-Nov. 11, occasionally winters. Ossining, common
S.R., Apl. 5-Nov. 7. Cambridge, abundant S.R.,
Apl. 12-Oct. 25. N. Ohio, abundant S.R., Mch.
23-Oct. 10. Glen Ellyn, not very common S.R., Apl.
5-Nov. 5. SE. Minn., common S.R., Apl. 8-Oct. 26.

The friendly Chippy is the most familiar and domestic of any of our
native Sparrows. He makes tentative visits to our piazzas and, cats
permitting, will take up his residence there, building a neat,
hair-lined nest in the vines or a nearby bush. Unassuming in voice as he
is in manner, his _Chippy-chippy-chippy_, many times repeated,
expresses contentment, even if it does not attain high musical rank.
Madame Chippy has fine taste in eggs, laying, in early May, little blue
gems, beautifully marked with brown or black.

CLAY-COLORED SPARROW

_Spizella pallida. Case 6, Fig. 48_

The Clay-colored Sparrow resembles a winter
Chipping Sparrow, but is paler and has a white
line over the eye and a brownish rump. L. 5-1/2.

_Range._ Interior states east to Illinois; winters
from Texas southward. SE. Minn., common S.R., Apl.
26-Oct. 19.

A Chipping Sparrow of the Plains which nests on the ground and in low
bushes. It is not common east of the Mississippi.

FIELD SPARROW