. Birds of North Carolina . arrow. Dencriplion: Ads.—^Crown nifoiis-l)ro\vn, witli a grayish Hnc throuRh its center; a grayishUncover the eye; a rufous-brown line from lichiiid the eye to I lie nape; feat hers of the Ixick streakedwith and tnargined with rufous-l)rown and grayisli; greater wing-coverts with l)lack spotsat tlieir tips; no white wing-liars or yellow on the wing; tail rufous grayish brown, the middlefeathers darker along their shafts; outer feathers shortest; sides of the throat with lilack or blackishstreaks; breast with wedge-shaped streaks of black and rufous-brown whi
. Birds of North Carolina . arrow. Dencriplion: Ads.—^Crown nifoiis-l)ro\vn, witli a grayish Hnc throuRh its center; a grayishUncover the eye; a rufous-brown line from lichiiid the eye to I lie nape; feat hers of the Ixick streakedwith and tnargined with rufous-l)rown and grayisli; greater wing-coverts with l)lack spotsat tlieir tips; no white wing-liars or yellow on the wing; tail rufous grayish brown, the middlefeathers darker along their shafts; outer feathers shortest; sides of the throat with lilack or blackishstreaks; breast with wedge-shaped streaks of black and rufous-brown which tend to form onelarger blotch on the center; sides washed with brownish and streaked with black and rufous-brown; middle of the belly white. 1>., (i.:i(); \)2;T., )2; 1$., .41). (Chxip., BirdsoJ E. N. A.) lidiujc. -lOastern United States, breeding mainly north of \orth Carolina. liantje in North Carolina.—Whole State in winter; in .summer breeding throughout the moun-tains and to some extent on the Fio. 1U7. Soso The Song Sparrow is apparently only a winter visitor in central and most ofthe eastern ])ortions of North Carolina, arriving from the north about the middleof October :uid leaving early in April. Altliough Cairns never detected it breeding during his observations in BuncombeCounty, and Brewster failed to find it in Macon, Jackson, Haywood, and Bun-combe counties in , yet at the jiresent time it seems to breed in many jwrtsof the mouiittiin region. The localities from which we have summer records areIlighhuids and A(|Uone in Macon County, Blantyre in Transylvania Coimty, andIleinlersonville in Henderson County, at all of which places it has been observed Descriptive List 249 iu summer by Sherman or C. S. Brimley. At Blowdng Rock it was found breedingby S. C. Bruner in 1907; at Cranberry, observed by P. Laurent in the summer of1892; Asheville, seen carrying food (Pearson), July 26, 1902; Montreat, buildinga nest, June 27, 1910 (P
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