[SONG sb.] A common North American song-bird of the genus Melospiza, esp. M. fasciata (or melodia) and cinerea.

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1810.  A. Wilson, Amer. Ornith., II. 126. The Song Sparrow builds in the ground, under a tuft of grass.

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1860.  Gosse, Rom. Nat. Hist., 7. The song-sparrow is the chief performer in this early concert.

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1872.  Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 139. The Eastern song sparrow is simply one variety of a bird distributed from Atlantic to Pacific.

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1898.  B. Torrey, in Atlantic Monthly, LXXXII. 496/1. A song sparrow singing from a dense swampy thicket.

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