Fox Sparrow
“Passerella iliaca. Eastern Fox Sparrow. General color above ferrugineous or rusty-red, purest and brightest on the rump, tail, and wings, on the other upper parts appearing in streaks laid on an ashy ground. Below, white, variously but thickly marked except on the belly and crissum with rusty-red- the markings anteriorly in the form of diffuse confluent blotches, on the breast and sides consisting chiefly of sharp arrow-head spots and pointed streaks. Tips of middle and greater wing-coverts forming two whitish bars. Upper mandible dark, lower mostly yellow; feet pale. One of the finest singers of the family; quite unlike any other Eastern species of sparrow. A large handsome species.” Elliot Coues, 1884
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migratory birds, birds, songbirds, American sparrow, North American birds, omnivorous birds, Passerella iliaca, Eastern Fox Sparrow, Fox SparrowGalleries
Birds: SSource
Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)
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