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Teachers' manual of bird-life/Pooecetes gramineus

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2485897Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds. Teachers ManualPlate XLIV, Vesper Sparrow, (Pooecetes gramineus)Ernest Seton Thompson


Page 141.

VESPER SPARROW.

Length, 6.10 inches. Upper parts grayish, black, and brown; breast and sides streaked with black and brown; belly white; lesser wing-coverts chestnut; outer tail-feathers more or less white.