DCHP-3

spring bird

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the song sparrow, Melospiza melodia.

Quotations

1749
Upon the Eighth, there came several large Flocks of what they call Spring-Birds, as they always come in the Beginning of that Season.
1832
The birds most generally known in America [include] . . . red-hooded winter bird . . . musquito hawk . . . yellow bird, spring-bird . . . spotted godwait, or yellow-legs. . . .
1959
Song Sparrow [is also called] spring bird (N.B.).