the white-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis.
- 1866  (1873)  How eagerly I watched, this spring, for the return from the South of the Sweet, Sweet Canada bird, the white-throated sparrow--whose clear, shrill clarion resounds even in the depth of night.
- 1958  Best known of Canadian sparrows is frequently nicknamed the Canada bird, the white-throat's clear, silver-arrow song rendered into words as: "Oh, Can-a-da, Can-a-da, Can-a-da!"