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☆ vesper sparrow

a gray-brown North American sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) with white outer tail feathers: so called from its practice of singing in the evening

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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