186 



SINGING BIRDS — OSCINES. 



p. graminevs. 



tlic middle of the tail, as far as the coverts, and pointed ; tlie jiriniaries considerably longer 

 than the secondaries, which are not much surpassed liy the tertiaries ; second and third 

 quills longest ; first a little shorter, about equal to the fourth, shorter than the tail, the 



p. ^rnininetts. 



outer feathers scarcely shorter ; the feathers rather stiff; each one acuminate and sharply 

 pninteil ; the feathers broad nearly to the end, when they are obliquely truncate. Streaked 

 with In-own above everywhere ; lieneatli, on the breast and sides. The lateral tail feather 

 is white. 



Pooecetes gramineus, fhiELix. 



THE GRASS FINCH; BAY-WINGED BUNTING. 



FringiUa (jraminea, Gjielin, Syst. Nat. I. 1788, 922. — Eiiiheriza gmminea, WiLSOX, Am. Orn. 

 IV. 1811, 51; pi. xxxi. f. 5. Aui>., Birds Amer. III. 1841, 65 ; pi. 1 59. — 2bnofric/»a 

 (jrnminm, Bonap.^rte, List, 1838. — IIkermann, I". R. Rep. X. vi. 47. — Newberby, 

 VI. iv. 85. — Poocalcs firiimineiis, Bairi), P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 447. — Cooper and 

 SucKLEV, XII. iii. Zooi. of W. T. 200. 



Sp. CiiAn. Tail ii-athers rather acute. Above light yellowisli-brown ; the feathers 

 everywhere streaked abruptly with dark brown, even on the sides of the neck, which are 



