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Sparrow (Their song is a simple sweet)

Their song is a simple, sweet, but somewhat monotonous tweet-tweet-tweet, repeated many times, all on one note, and sometimes running into a trill. 585. Passerella iliaca (Merr.). FOX SPARROW. Ad.-Upper parts rufous brown, the feathers margined by cinnamon-brown; upper tail-coverts and tail bright rufous; wings margined with rufous; under parts heavily streaked and spotted with rufousbrown and blackish; middle of the belly white; lower mandible yellowish. L., 7-26; W., 3.39; T., 2.85; B., 50.