Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Vanna Sparrow

Ad.-A pale yellow mark over or before the eye and on the bend of the wing; general tone of the upper parts brownish black, the centers of the feathers black, margined first by rufous or ochraceous-buff, then by ashy; wings fuscous, the outer webs of the feathers margined with ochraceous-buff'; tail fuscous, the outer web of the feathers margined with whitish; under parts white, heavily streaked with blackish and rufous, the breast feathers tipped with wedge-shaped marks. L., 5-68; W., 2.62; T., 2-09; B., 40. Remarks.-Fall specimens are more or less suffused with ochraceous.

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