"White-crowned sparrow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... add a little spice of detail if we take a concrete case. There is the handsome and lyrical white-crowned sparrow; in my native State, Ohio, this bird is only a migrant, passing for the summer far up into Canada to court his mate and rear his family. Now remember that Colorado is in the same latitude as Ohio; but the Buckeye State, famous as it is for furnishing ...
— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser
... listened again, though I could no longer be said to feel in doubt. A long time I waited. Again and again the birds sang, and at last I discovered one of them perched at the top of the oak, tossing back his head and warbling —a white-crowned sparrow: the one regular Massachusetts migrant which I had often seen, but had ...
— A Florida Sketch-Book • Bradford Torrey |
