Definition of Genus Spizella

1. Noun. Chipping sparrow; field sparrow; tree sparrow.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Spizella

genus Spheniscus
genus Sphenodon
genus Sphyraena
genus Sphyrapicus
genus Sphyrna
genus Spilogale
genus Spinacia
genus Spinus
genus Spiraea
genus Spiranthes
genus Spirillum
genus Spirochaeta
genus Spirodela
genus Spirogyra
genus Spirula
genus Spizella (current term)
genus Spodoptera
genus Spondias
genus Sporobolus
genus Spraguea
genus Spyeria
genus Squalus
genus Squatina
genus Squilla
genus Stachys
genus Stanhopea
genus Stanleya
genus Stapelia
genus Staphylea
genus Staphylococcus

Literary usage of Genus Spizella

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey, George Hammell Cook (1868)
"Genus SPIZELLA. Spizella monticola. Tree-Sparrow. Resident. Abundant. Though feeding principally on seeds, they%not unfrequently prey upon small insects. ..."

2. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"genus Spizella. BONAP. 424 (559) SPIZELLA MONTICOLA. (GMEL.) Tree Sparrow. Eastern North America; from Arctic Ocean to the Carolinas; breeds north of United ..."

3. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1863)
"... the garden, or the yard, wherever the winds or the housewife's broom have left the ground uncovered with snow. 82. genus Spizella, (Bon., 1838.) 1. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The genus Spizella, which differs from the last in its smaller size and longer forked tail, contains three well-known northern species and as many more ..."

5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1886)
"Proc. USN Mus. VIII, P-354 ('885). Recorded from the Bahamas and Cuba. GENUS Spizella BONAP. Spizella BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, p. 33 (1838). ..."

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