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
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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
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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
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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
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