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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small fringilline bird of the United States, the Spizella pusilla or S. agrestis, closely resembling and related to the chipping-sparrow, S. socialis or S. domestica. It is very common in the eastern United States, inhabiting fields, hedges, and waysides, and nesting in low bushes near the ground.
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“You consider, doubtless, that a field-sparrow is not a creature of much importance; but do you know that he consumes half a bushel of corn annually?”
“A field-sparrow came hopping through the grass in search of insects, and the little bee pressed herself close to the ground and kept very quiet until the bird had gone.”
“Among the finches one of the most musical and plaintive songs is that of the bush-sparrow—I do not know why the books call it field-sparrow, for it does not dwell in the open fields like the vesperfinch, the savannah-sparrow, and grasshopper-sparrow, but among the cedars and bayberry bushes and young locusts in the same places where the prairie warbler is found.”
“Among the finches one of the most musical and plaintive songs is that of the bush-sparrow -- I do not know why the books call it field-sparrow, for it does not dwell in the open fields like the vesperfinch, the savannah-sparrow, and grasshopper-sparrow, but among the cedars and bayberry bushes and young locusts in the same places where the prairie warbler is found.”
“No cowbirds have been seen since the first week of the month, save the young one on the stump, which the field-sparrow was feeding this morning.”
“Into a nest found a month ago, at the foot of a yarrow stalk, the cowbird had sneaked three speckled eggs, leaving only one of the pretty eggs of the field-sparrow.”
“I listened to the delightsome song of the field-sparrow.”
“The following are among its most frequent dupes, given somewhat in the order of the bird's apparent choice: song-sparrow, field-sparrow, yellow warbler, chipping-sparrow, other sparrows,”
“I was not only nearer to some of those which commonly frequent the garden and the orchard, but to those wilder and more thrilling songsters of the forest which never, or rarely, serenade a villager, -- the wood-thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager, the field-sparrow, the whippoorwill, and many others.”
“I was not only nearer to those which commonly frequent the garden and the orchard, but to those wilder and more thrilling songsters of the forest which never, or rarely, serenade a villager-the wood-thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager, the field-sparrow, the whippoorwill, and many others.”
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