"Head: crown rusty or chesnut, with a small medial pale spot above the bill; forehead black; supercillium and supraloral spot white; eye-stripe and lores black ... underparts: gray; breast and flanks gray or grayish-brown and unstreaked; belly dull white ...." (David Beadle & James Rising. Sparrows of the United States and Canada, p. 80)

"Chipping Sparrow has a rather disjunct breeding distribution in the state. They are common residents on the Edwards Plateau and locally abundant in the Guadalupe and Davis Mountains. In the P9ineywoods, Chipping Sparrows are uncommon residents. They are common to abundant migranats and winter residents in nearly all parts of the state." (Mark W. Lockwood & Brush Freeman's The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds, p. 192-193)

The Chipping Sparrow is very similar to the Clay Colored Sparrow. This contrasts the faces of the two.