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	fox - definition by dict.die.net
		Fox terrier (Zo["o]l.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes.
		Fox trot, a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passing from a walk into a trot, or a trot into a walk.
		The proverbial cunning of the fox is alluded to in Ezek.
	dict.die.net /fox (771 words)

	Fox Sparrow
		Fox Sparrows that inhabit the western mountains and Pacific Coast are predominantly gray or dark brown.
		The widespread Fox Sparrow appears to be in the early stages of speciation, the process of isolated forms of one species differentiating to become separate and distinct species.
		The upper mandible is grayish brown; the lower mandible is yellow in the Slate-colored Fox Sparrow and blue-gray in the Large-billed Fox Sparrow.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /fox_sparrow_info.htm (704 words)

	SONGS OF THE FOX SPARROW. III. ORDERING OF SONG
		Fox Sparrows of North America are of interest because the structure and complexity of their song and the size of individual song repertoires in western races are intermediate in com- parison with most other species and, in particular, with their close relatives in Melospiza and Zonotrichia (Martin 1977, 1979).
		METHODS Fox Sparrows in northern Utah and southern Idaho were recorded during the breeding seasons of 1973 and 1974 at 19 cm/sec on a Uher 4000 IC tape recorder equipped with a Uher 516 microphone mounted in a 60 cm parabolic reflector.
		Fox Sparrows with multiple versions of a song-type do not appear predisposed to order their songs so that versions are separated by one or more songs of a different type (Tables 2 and 3).
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Wilson/v102n04/p0655-p0671.html (9903 words)

	Smoky Mountain News \| Outdoors
		While the fox sparrow sings lustily into July (it is often a double-brooder) on its nesting grounds, it is mostly silent, except for a loud, smacking “chip” note in the winter.
		The eastern fox sparrow is primarily a ground dweller.
		Fox sparrows are much more numerous in Louisiana in the winter and are often encountered in loose flocks numbering from five or six to a dozen or more.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/03_04/03_03_04/out_naturalist.html (634 words)

	* Fox - (Animals): Definition
		Fox squirrels are important small game animals throughout most of their range, hence they are of decided economic value.
		Foxes are characterized by short legs, an elongated narrow muzzle, erect triangular ears, thick fur, and a long bushy tail...
		Fox squirrels prefer to live in edge habitats and feed in the middle of the day rather than in the morning like the eastern grays.
	en.mimi.hu /animals/fox.html (1457 words)

	BiRDZiLLA: Baths and Misters
		The songs of fox sparrows, considered from a geographic point of view, show tendencies to vary that may be correlated with differential choice of habitat and with structural differentiation.
		Fox sparrows seem to have a penchant for islands, particularly those with steep, rocky shores where the growth is apt to be stunted and gnarled and more or less impenetrable.
		Fox Sparrows are exceedingly common on the islands in Prince William Sound and they are not too difficult to find in the more heavily wooded sections of the Kenai Peninsula which is a major part of their breeding range.
	www.birdzilla.com /pages/bow/fox/fox.htm (14060 words)

	Fox Sparrows on ID Frontiers
		As far as I know, Fox Sparrows (sensu lato) have only two major types of location notes: the smacking "tik" like a loud Lincoln's Sparrow (we all have different ways of describing it, but we all know what we mean), and the metallic "chink" which is very much like the call of California Towhee.
		The whole Fox Sparrow issue is going to be difficult to come to grips with, since there seems to be a lot of intra-population variation, much post-mortem color change in museum specimens, and intermediate populations connecting the 4 groups.
		Notes of Fox Sparrow On 5 December 1996 I was drawn to a small group of cedars in my yard by a loud, metallic chip note, sounding very much like water dripping into a tin can, sounding like "toink" or "choink".
	thebirdguide.com /fox/frontier.htm (5523 words)

	Fox Sparrow
		Fox Sparrow: Large, chubby sparrow that varies from dark brown or gray-brown in the West to rich rufous-brown in the East.
		Fox Sparrow: This sparrow breeds from the Aleutians and mainland Alaska east to northern Quebec and Maritimes and south to southern California and Colorado.
		Fox Sparrow: Four to five pale green eggs, densely spotted with red-brown, are laid in a thick-walled cup of leaves in grass and moss, concealed in vegetation on or near the ground.
	identify.whatbird.com /obj/145/_/Fox_Sparrow.aspx (713 words)

	Birds: The Fox-Colored Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Fox-colored Sparrow is also one of the largest and finest of his tribe, breeding from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Labrador north into Alaska; in winter it is met with south over the whole of the eastern United States to the Gulf coast.
		In the early spring the Fox Sparrow is often seen associated with small parties of Juncos, in damp thickets and roadside shrubbery; later, according to Mr.
		The Sparrows are worthy of close study, many of them possessing habits of great beauty and interest.
	www.birdnature.com /jan1898/foxsparrow.html (506 words)

	Archive of Comments
		Fox sparrow also has relatively long wings with long primary projection and emarginations on the outer primaries relatively farther from the base than on white-throated.
		Furthermore fox sparrows are frequent visitors to the yard (5 at one time about a week ago) but _never_ has there been one on the feeder.
		Fox sparrows seem to be more intense in their scratching (they do it almost constantly) but otherwise their style is much the same as the white-throated.
	www.duke.edu /~lois/mystery/comments.htm (11854 words)

	Fox Sparrow
		This large sparrow is named for the rufous colour of its rump, tail, wings, and streaked breast, contrasting attractively with the white underparts and grey markings on the head, neck and back.
		Fox Sparrows occasionally reach southern Manitoba in late March, but peak migration is usually in mid- to late April, extending into the first half of May in a cold spring.
		Thompson’s observation that the Fox Sparrow was “quite abundant and breeding” on the west side of the Duck Mountains in June 1884 may reflect a former, more southerly distribution for this species, or it may simply be erroneous.
	www.manitobanature.ca /birdbook2/fosp-text.html (630 words)

	Fox Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sparrows are generally small, brown-bodied birds with streaked backs and conical bills for eating seeds.
		Sparrows may be difficult to identify as most species display a variety of immature and seasonal plumages.
		Although adult Fox Sparrows are known to consume a variety of food items: seeds, buds, berries, insects, spiders and millipedes, young birds are fed exclusively insects.
	www.nps.gov /gaar/Expanded/key_values/natural_resources/birds/bird_descriptions/fox_sparrow.htm (473 words)

	SPARROW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sparrows have large feet that are well-adapted for scratching for seeds, their chief food.
		For example, song sparrows live in bushy areas, fox sparrows in forests, swamp sparrows in marshes, vesper sparrows in prairies, and sage sparrows in deserts.
		The white-throated sparrow is Zonotrichia albicollis, and the white-crowned sparrow is Z. leucophrys.
	www.worldbook.com /wc/features/cybercamp/html/walkspar.html (339 words)

	The BirdWeb - Species Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Fox Sparrow is a large, chunky sparrow that is highly variable in appearance, depending on geographical region.
		The Sooty Fox Sparrow is an uncommon and local breeder in shrubby habitats along the outer coast, around Cape Flattery, on Tatoosh Island, and on some of the San Juan Islands north of Orcas Island.
		One race of the Slate-colored Fox Sparrow breeds at higher elevations in the eastern Cascades and northeastern Washington, and another race breeds in the Blue Mountains.
	www.birdweb.org /birdweb/Species.asp?id=418 (800 words)

	BISON Species Account 041835 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fox sparrow is a migrant with more of their winter population in the United States and Canada 25.
		UTAH Fox Sparrow, Passerella iliaca schistacea (and P.i.swarthi), occurs in Utah (UTDNR, 1990) 43.
		Fox sparrows (Passerella iliaca) are dependent on herbaceous and shrubby ground cover for nesting and/or foraging 34(Bock et al., 1992).
	www.fw.vt.edu /fishex/nmex_main/species/041835.htm (1601 words)

	Mike Tove's Description
		After examining photos of different sparrow species, I find this feature to be more characteristic of Fox Sparrow than a Zonotricia.
		Forgetting the actual colors (which are melanomorphic (abnormally high concentrations of menalin), the pattern (the distribution) of colors clearly points to a sparrow with a streaked breast, not a clear breast.
		Only Fox Sparrow has the actual breast pattern of this bird and only Fox Sparrow has an unstreaked back (just not the race iliaca).
	www.duke.edu /~lois/mystery/tove1.htm (796 words)

	RonAusting.com Wildlife Photography
		The Fox Sparrow is a rusty brown or fox-red above especially on the tail and streaked with gray.
		During the breeding season the Fox Sparrow inhabits the Coniferous forests of northern Canada, Alaska and the western United States in the Rocky Mountain regions.
		The Fox Sparrow is mainly a ground feeder and the diet consists mostly of seeds with smaller amounts of fruit and insects.
	www.ronausting.com /birds/sparrows/fox.html (291 words)

	Ben Burtt's Bird Column
		The fox sparrow is a very attractive member of the sparrow family.
		The fox sparrow is the largest of the sparrows that we see.
		However, the other markings on the fox sparrow are much broader and darker than those of the song sparrow.
	web.syr.edu /~bpburtt/Birds/Mar21-04.htm (1062 words)

	Mount Rainier National Park (Nature Notes)
		The breeding range of the sooty fox sparrow is described as Vancouver Island, the San Juan Islands and the northwestern coast of Washington, the birds migrating in winter as far south as California.
		It is a large sparrow, in color a uniformly warm sepia-brown on the back, head and tail; white underparts, the upper portions of which are covered with triangular, arrow-like spots of brown perhaps a shade darker than the back; lower belly remains white.
		Some bird-writers claim that the Lincoln's sparrow is like the song sparrow and that one might be taken for the other.
	www.nps.gov /mora/notes/vol17-3-4c24.htm (1528 words)

	Fox Sparrow ID
		Sooty Fox Sparrow: These are the Fox Sparrows breeding from the Aleutian Islands and coastal Alaska south to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington.
		Slate-colored Fox Sparrow: These Fox Sparrows are found in the Rocky Mountains and similar mountains of western North America, ranging from Colorado to eastern California, north through interior British Columbia and Alberta.
		Breeding Fox Sparrows in the southern Cascades of Washington
	thebirdguide.com /fox/fox.htm (711 words)

	The Birds of North America Online: Fox Sparrow
		When John James Audubon found a Fox Sparrow for the first time on its breeding grounds in southern Labrador in 1834, he had no idea that he was looking at one of North America’s most geographically variable birds.
		The Fox Sparrow is a common but shy inhabitant of streamside thickets and chaparral across the northern boreal and western montane regions of North America.
		Fox Sparrow populations also vary in migratory distance and route; individuals nesting in the Sierra Nevada of California migrate only short distances, mostly altitudinally, while those from Alaska migrate long distances, with some traveling over open ocean.
	bna.birds.cornell.edu /BNA/demo/account/Fox_Sparrow (325 words)

	Outfoxing Arizona Fox Sparrows article--Tucson Audubon Society
		It is well known that there is much variability among Fox Sparrows, with evidence suggesting it could be split into as many as four separate species in the future.
		Well, while the “Red Fox Sparrow” form does occur in Arizona and all “Eastern” birds are “Red,” not all “Reds” are “Eastern” (subspecies iliaca).
		With this in mind, any of the forms of Fox Sparrow are possible here, and should be identifiable to form with the help of one of the better field guides.
	www.tucsonaudubon.org /birding/article10.htm (625 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Melospiza melodia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Color: Grayish eyebrow; white throat bordered by a dark stripe; pale gray to white central crown stripe; variable striping on the head and body; streaking on the neck, flanks, and lower belly; dark central spot on the chest; under parts whitish with streaking; legs and feet pinkish.
		The Song Sparrow is limited to the northern quarter of Georgia during the breeding season, but occurs throughout the state in the winter.
		The Fox Sparrow has reddish wings and tail and its tail is squared off instead of round like that of the Song Sparrow.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/birds/passeriformes/mmelodia.html (488 words)

	eNature: FieldGuides: Species Detail
		My children picked up a dead fox sparrow on the road and carried it home.
		A chubby, large sparrow, either dusky brown, or slate-colored in the West, or rich rufous in the East, often so dark that no back pattern can be discerned.
		Discussion Away from the breeding grounds, Fox Sparrows are most conspicuous during spring migration, when one frequently hears their rich, melodious song coming from brushy thickets and roadsides.
	www.enature.com /fieldguide/showSpeciesRECNUM.asp?recnum=BD0312 (349 words)

	Chapter Fourthly <i>to</i> Fracture of F by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes.
		The wedge abuts on the bottom of the hole and the piece is driven down upon it.
		Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1197/22691/3.html (385 words)

	Fox Sparrow -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fox Sparrow -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Fox Sparrow, Passerella iliaca, is a large (Any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects) sparrow.
		It is the only member of the genus Passerella ((Click link for more info and facts about Swainson) Swainson, 1837).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fo/Fox_Sparrow.htm (274 words)

	All About Birds
		A large, boldly striped sparrow of scrubby boreal forest and mountain chaparral, the Fox Sparrow is most familiar as a migrant or wintering bird.
		Its vigorous "double-scratching," kicking backward in ground litter with both feet to uncover food, often draws attention to its presence under a bird feeder.
		The Fox Sparrow comes in four different forms, sometimes considered separate species.
	birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Fox_Sparrow.html (214 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Fox Sparrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Remarks Regarding the erratic pattern of this bird's migration through Nova Scotia, Harrison F. Lewis suggests that the birds may follow a preferred route along the south shore of New Brunswick until they can cross the upper Bay of Fundy or come in over land through Cumberland County.
		This bird is most likely to be confused in life with the Hermit Thrush, which also has a conspicuous rufous tail.
		However, the thrush has a slender bill quite unlike that of any sparrow, and its underparts are more lightly spotted.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0374.htm (498 words)

	Fox Sparrow Recoveries and Returns
		In the meantime it had made five complete migrations, three to its wintering-grounds and two to its summering (nesting).
		Marsden of Hanover, New Hampshire, April 5, 1929, and found dead strangely enough at the same place, Pinetown, North Carolina, by C.
		cit.), however, records one return Fox Sparrow from Cedar I-Iill, British Columbia, eleven from Berkeley, California, and one from Los Angeles, California.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v002n03/p0127-p0128.html (349 words)

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