Length ten to eleven inches.
Upper parts marked with brown, bay, gray, and black; head striped, with a yellow spot in front of the eye; wing-feathers nearest the body, and most of the tail-feathers, scalloped with black and gray, but the outside tail-feathers white.
Under parts nearly all yellow, with a black crescent on the breast, but further back flaxen-brown, with dark stripes.
Bill stout where it runs up on the forehead, but tapering to the point.
A Citizen of the United States and Canada.
A good and useful neighbor. A famous member of the guild of Ground Gleaners, its chief work being to kill bad insects which eat the grass-roots in pastures and hay-fields.
A beautiful bird and charming songster.
[CHAPTER XVIII]
CROWS AND THEIR COUSINS
In half an hour the children were back again, all talking eagerly together.