Wild Birds in City Parks / Being hints on identifying 145 birds, prepared primarily for the spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago

by Herbert Eugene Walter; Alice Hall Walter

(Dendroica coronata. 655.)

Blue-gray, streaked; crown, rump and spot on each side of breast, yellow; white below, marked on breast and sides with black; usually in small flocks. [Magnolia Warbler.]

39. SWAMP SPARROW. 5-3/4 in.

(Melospiza georgiana. 584.)

Very darkly colored and heavily streaked; chestnut cap, sometimes indistinctly streaked; black forehead; plain ashy breast; shy; frequents bushes along the water’s edge. [Song Sparrow.] [Lincoln Sparrow.]

40. PURPLE FINCH. 6-1/4 in.

(Carpodacus purpureus. 517.)

Not “purple,” but faded crimson-red, somewhat streaky; belly whitish; large, heavy bill; female mottled olive-brown, resembling sparrows; noteworthy song.

41. CEDAR WAXWING. 7 in.

(Ampelis cedrorum. 619.)