field sparrow

American  

noun

1. a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.

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Etymology

Origin of field sparrow

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Example Sentences

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field sparrow

I’ve gone whole winters without seeing a field sparrow in the New Orleans vicinity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2012

Sitting clumsily on a big stump, a big baby cowbird, well able to shift for himself, shamelessly takes food from his little field sparrow foster-mother, scarcely more than half his size.

From Some Summer Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John

The tree sparrow has a parti-coloured bill, the upper-half black, the lower yellow with a black tip, while the chippy has an entirely black bill, and the field sparrow a flesh-coloured or pale-red one.

From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje

A little field sparrow came to a tragical end in a different way.

From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

In the meadows the bobolink is in all his glory; in the high pastures the field sparrow sings his breezy vesper-hymn; and the woods are unfolding to the music of the thrushes.

From Wake-Robin by Burroughs, John