Singing of the Female State-colored Fox Sparrow
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On April 17, 1909, I was watching a pair of Slate-colored Fox Sparrows in a willow thicket near Bozeman, Montana. At first I believed, from their actions, that the birds were mating, but later, when I notist that both birds sang alternately, I decided that they must be rival males. The songs were very similar in every way except that one was somewhat weaker than the other. I finally secured the bird with the weaker song and was much surprised when, on later examination, it proved to be a female.
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Saunders, Aretas A.
(1910)
"Singing of the Female State-colored Fox Sparrow,"
Condor: Vol. 12
:
Iss.
2
, Article 7.
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https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/condor/vol12/iss2/7
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