This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and accidentally pass a gull, the gull would most likely steal the fish. Old pelican would have to go fishing again. But that is his business. It is gull's business to get fish wherever fish may be found out of deep water. DIFFERENT SPARROWS. HE fox-sparrow, the whitecrowned sparrow, and the golden-crowned sparrow are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and accidentally pass a gull, the gull would most likely steal the fish. Old pelican would have to go fishing again. But that is his business. It is gull's business to get fish wherever fish may be found out of deep water. DIFFERENT SPARROWS. HE fox-sparrow, the whitecrowned sparrow, and the golden-crowned sparrow are winter visitants in California. They appear early in October, and leave us in April, or earlier. The fox-sparrow is so named on account of its foxy-red upper plumage. It is a very beautiful bird, and comes now and then to our garden-table with the other sparrows; but it is more shy. Some winters we see but two or three. It has a shorter and stouter bill than the other sparrows, and larger, stronger feet. It nests far north in Alaska, or in our highest mountains. Its habits are much like those Of all its comrade sparrows. The song is very sweet, and, once heard, will not be forgotten. We never see the young birds of the fox-sparrows nor of the crowned sparrows. They REFERENC E TOPICS. Migration of birds. Origin of English sparrow. Introduction of animals Into new countries. Rabbits in Australia. are born and grow up in the far north, and are in full plumage when we first see them. The golden-crowns are not so numerous as the white-crowns, but always we have a few of them. They do not sing so constantly with us as the white-crowns. The fox-sparrow and the golden-crowns do not appear in large flocks, as do the white-crowns. Of all the winter sparrows that come to us, we love the white-crowns best. Some autumn morning in the garden, before the sun is well out of his bed, we hear a sweet song, just five or six notes, and we cry, "The white-crowns are here!" But there is only one. The main flock is on the way. With most of our migratory bi...
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