25. FIELD SPARROW. 5-3/4 in.
(Spizella pusilla. 563.)
Streaked; crown and bill reddish-brown; neck ashy; brownish-white unspotted breast; two indistinct white wing bars; song, “fe-u, fe-u, fu, fee, fee, fee,” beginning slowly and ending almost in a trill. [Chipping Sparrow.] [Tree Sparrow.]
26. HERMIT THRUSH. 7-1/4 in.
(Hylocichla guttata pallasii. 759b.)
Olive-brown; tail reddish-brown; below dull white tinged with buff and thickly spotted across the breast; shy, hiding in bushes; famous for its song but silent during migration. [Other Thrushes.]
27. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. 9-1/4 in.
(Agelaius phoeniceus. 498.)
Black; scarlet shoulder-straps edged with yellow; female much streaked, marked with rusty; likes marshy places; note, “quonk-a-ree´.” [Cowbird.] [Rusty Blackbird.]