Small, seed-eating New World finches, represented in the North Country by eight species, all summer visitors: the Chipping Sparrow ( Spizella passerina), Clay Colored Sparrow ( Spizella pallida), Le Conte's Sparrow ( Ammospiza leconteii), Song Sparrow ( Melospiza melodia), Lincoln's Sparrow ( Melospiza lincolnii), Swamp Sparrow ( Melospiza georgiana), White Throated Sparrow ( Zonotrichia albicollis), and the Dark Eyed Junco ( Junco hyemalis). From the Old English spearwa.