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WHITE - CROWNED SPARROW nia s m ountains through northern sta te apiary insjavtor and ento Arizona. Wyoming, southern Que-I Brookings Harbor P ilo t mologist w ith the department. bee and southern Greenland. The TH U R SD A Y . A P R IL 30. 1953 These two worm species were breeding range extends north identified by Dorothy McKoy- roughly as far as trees are to be ! F ender of McMinnville and Jam es found. By E. L aw rence P almer Some folks might consider it a A. M acnab of the Portland S ta te 11THEN W IN TER has begun to The W hite-crowned Sparrow , bit on the odd side to have earth E rtension C enter. Each speci- I ▼ give way to spring and spring like its close relative, the W hite- men has been deposited in the worms nam ed a fte r them , but shows occasional signs of sum throated Sparrow, is about that isn’t the ease with John E. collection of the California Acad mer. the W hite-crow ned Sparrow s jnch longer than a Song Sparrow Davis and A. B urr Black. Salem emy of sciences. are in the height of th eir n o rth with a correspondingly wider The two new earthw orm s are entom ologists. Each has recent ern m igration through the n orth wing-spread. The length of the ■ PLANER ENDS ly had a new species of Plutellus described in some detail about ern p art of the U nited States. W hite-crowned Sparrow is about I earthw orm to most of us 12 pages by M cKey-Fender and They have w intered south of a 7*2 inches. The easiest field named a fte r him. One of the Macnab in an article in a recent line running crudely from the Po- character to distinguish the worm s is Plutellus davasi, and issue of the W asm ann Journal of W hite-crowned from the W hite- the o th er is Plutellus blacki. Easy Street Biology. The authors say the crowned from the W hite-throated One of the worms was collect W’orm s “are unique among North I is naturally the absence in t h e , ed by Davis, who is in charge of American forms in being bithe- form er of the conspicuous w hite the plant pest and disease su r cal,” which m eans they have a throat of the latter. The W hite- vey program for the sta te de double case or covering in a p a r Find w hat you w ant through crowned is also in general grayer partm ent of agriculture, on the ticular part of the worm. the Pilot Class Ads. In both, the top of the head ap- 1 Chet co river sir miles above pears, at a distance to be simi Brookings. The other was found larly black and w hite striped. near Salem by Black, who is Both appear as ra th e r large sp ar rows and in m igration they m ay be in flocks of small size, some period is usually in June and July, i White-Crown Sparrow If you have not m ade the ac 01952 National W ildlif« Föderation times w ith other kinds of sp ar quaintance of this delightful bird Wiring Contractor-—Appliance Repair rows mixed in. and live within the area of its A college student who was later northern m igration this spring, tomac and Ohio river valleys to R E SID E N T IA L — IN D U ST R IA L Aridona and southern Lower Cali a professor of zoology was asked then get out and get acquainted. fornia. T heir w in ter range ex by his professor to collect some You will thank me for introduc tends well into Mexico. They sparrow s for use in laboratory ing you to the bird, the bird for breed north of cen tral Califor- and for feeding a captive allige- living, and wildlife protection o r j tor. The student, anxious to | ganizations like the National P.O. Box 337, Brookings, Ore. Phone 2944 please his tutor, shot the largest W ildlife Federation for sending sparrow s he could find. They you this message. * happened to be the W hite- crowned Sparrows. The professor probably m eant English S p a r the most generous gift A dynamic lesson followed of a ll. . . because it’s part / rows. on the im portance of knowing one sparrow from another before any killing is done. This philosophy, of you according to the National W ild YOUR life Federation, could wisely be applied to many practices asso P O R TR A IT ciated with casual or intentional I wildlife m anagem ent. Anyone who has followed a mixed flock of W hite-crowned or W hite-throated Sparrow s on a rainy spring morning and listened to their sweet sibilant songs, or who m ay have had any consider able association with the birds, would probably be the last to kill them simply because they were the largest sparrows available. The W hite-crowned S p a r r o w seems to be whispering its call while the W hite-throated gives a high-pitched sweet call that is just out of this world. W hite-crowned Sparrow s fe e d : I to a slight extent on grain and ' i to a great extent on weed seeds. | T heir economic im portance is ' probably neutral but th eir emo tional im portance ranks high with New International Trucks those who know them best. D ur An In d iv id u a l 5 x 7 Designed W ith M ore 5: j.-nina ing the sum m er m onths th eir food is prim arily insects. Stiver tone Portrait . . . . E xtra stamina for longer truck life is only I W hite-crowned Sparrow s usual- one of the profit building features de Mounted in folder of any mem lx I ly nest in brush,and or open veloped in In te rn a tio n a l’s c o n tin u in g 1 woods, usually in hilly country. of your family during April program of truck research. 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