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Teachers' manual of bird-life/Melospiza georgiana

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2485940Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds. Teachers ManualPlate XLII, Swamp Sparrow, (Melospiza georgiana)Ernest Seton Thompson


Page 139.

Swamp Sparrow.

Length, 5.90 inches. Summer plumage, crown bright chestnut; back black, brown, and buff; breast grayish; belly white; sides brownish. Winter plumage, similar, but crown streaked with chestnut-brown, black, and gray.