Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fringilline bird, Melospisa palusiris, abundant in eastern North America., related to and much resembling the song-sparrow, inhabiting the. shrubbery of swamps, marshes, and brakes (whence the name).
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Examples
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The eyes of the swamp-sparrow were not trained to take in the color glories, but he saw what we might have missed; that two of the numberless leafy brown bumps under the broad cabbage-leaves were furry, living things, with noses that never ceased to move up and down whatever else was still.
Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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A little brown swamp-sparrow was teetering on a long rush in the pond.
Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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