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Teachers' manual of bird-life/Spizella passerina

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2480924Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds. Teachers ManualPlate XLV, Chipping Sparrow, (Spizella passerina)Ernest Seton Thompson


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Chipping Sparrow.

Length, 5.35 inches. Summer plumage black; crown bright chestnut; back black, brown, and gray; under parts grayish white; bill black. Winter plumage, similar, but crown like back; bill brownish.