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| The Lincoln's sparrow is a small brown passerine bird
(Family: Emberizidae, Order: Passeriformes) that can be found near
water. The sparrow has conspicuous gray-white eyebrows (photo).
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| The crown of the sparrow is marked with rusty gray lines and
the breast of the sparrow is radially black spotted.
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| Its name are not from the US President Abraham Lincoln. In
1834, Audubon named this bird after his companion to his trip to
Labrador, Thomas Lincoln ("Natural Audubon Society Field Guide to
North American Birds").
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