GROUND ROBIN. 



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The Ferruginous Sparrow is about 6 inches long, and 9| in alar 

 dimensions. Head and neck cinereous, the feathers margined with 

 ferruginous. Wings and tail rust-color, inclined to reddish- 

 brown ; 1st and 2d rows of wing-coverts tipt with white. Legs and 

 feet robust, brownish-white. Bill stout, dusky, the lower mandible 

 yellowish. Irids hazel. 



GROUND ROBIN, or TOWWEE FINCH. 



{Fringilla erythrophthalma,L,is. Emberiza erytlirophthalma, "Wilson, 

 ii. p. 35. pi. 10. fig. 5. Phil. Museum, No. 5970.) 



Sp. Charact. — Black; belly white ; flanks and vent bay; tail 

 rounded, 4 outer feathers partly white ; a white spot on the wing 

 below the coverts, and an interrupted white margin on the pri- 

 maries; bill black. — Female, olive-brown where the male is 



