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chipping sparrow definition

☆ chipping sparrow

a small North American sparrow (Spizella passerina), with a reddish-brown crown and white breast

Etymology: < chip, echoic of its cry

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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