White-throated Sparrow. The most beautiful of all our Sparrows; a plump handsome bird. White throat and crown stripes. Back striped with black, bay, and whitish. Rump light olive-brown. Bay edgings to wings, and two white cross-bars; underparts gray. Yellow spot before eye. Female, crown brown, markings less distinct. Song, sweet and plaintive “Pee-a-peabody, peabody, peabody!”
Abundant migrant; also a winter resident from September to May.
Junco. (See page [250].)
Myrtle Warbler. (See page [250].)
Winter Wren. (See page [247].)
Golden-crowned Kinglet. (See page [249].)
Brown Creeper. (See page [184].)
Northern Shrike. A roving winter resident with Hawklike habits, Hawklike in flight: called “Butcher-bird,” from its meat-eating habits.
Length: 9-10.50 inches.
Male and Female: Powerful head, neck, and blackish beak with hooked point. Above bluish ash, lighter on the rump and shoulders. Wide black bar on each side of the head from the eye backward. Below, light gray with a brownish cast, broken on breast and sides by waved lines of darker gray. Wings and tail black, edged and tipped with white. Large white spot on wings, white tips and edges to outer quills of tail. Legs bluish black.