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White-throated Sparrow — Part 2
Adult--Upper parts reddish brown streaked with black; head black on either side of crown, white between and below the streaks; throat white; yellow between bill and eye, and at bend of wing; under parts gray.
Immature--Breast darker, almost spotted; throat whitish, with two undefined lines; the white on the head replaced by a grayish colour. Length--6.74.
Breeding Range--From northern Michigan and northern New York and northern New England, northward.
The nest is usually placed on the ground in woodland, or sometimes in open pasture land, and occasionally built in a bush or among the branches of a fallen tree. It is made of grasses, weeds, fine roots, and moss, with a lining of fine grass. 4 or 5 eggs are laid; they have the ground colour varying from white to bluish, or sometimes yellowish white, with fine marks and heavy blotches of different shades of brown. Size--.79 x .61 to .89 x .64. See Fig. 7, Plate B.
Next to the white-crowned sparrow, the Peabody-bird or White-throated Sparrow is the handsomest of the sparrows that visit our Eastern States, but he is known to most of us only as an autumn and spring visitor--ever welcome with his plaintive little song.
In New England the breeding season commences about June 1st.