DCHP-3

Canada bird

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the white-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis.

Quotations

1866
How eagerly I watched, this spring, for the return from the South of the Sweet, Sweet Canada bird, the white-throated sparrow--whose clear, shrill clarion resounds even in the depth of night.
1958
Best known of Canadian sparrows is frequently nicknamed the Canada bird, the white-throat's clear, silver-arrow song rendered into words as: "Oh, Can-a-da, Can-a-da, Can-a-da!"