118 SHARP-TAILED FINCH. 



quarter in extent ; chin pure white, bordered on each side by a stripe 

 of dark ash, proceeding from each base of the lower mandible, above 

 that is another slight streak of white ; from the nostril over the eye 

 extends another streak which immediately over the lores is rich yellow, 

 bordered above with white, and ending in yellow olive ; crown brownish 

 olive, divided laterally by a stripe of slate blue, or fine light ash ; breast 

 ash, streaked with buff; belly white; vent buff-colored, and streaked 

 with black ; upper parts of the back, wings and tail a yellowish brown 

 olive, intermixed with very pale blue ; greater and lesser coverts tipped 

 with dull white ; edge of the bend of the wing rich yellow ; primaries 

 edged Avith tlie same iumiediately below tlicir coverts ; tail cuneiform, 

 olive brown, centered with black ; bill dusky above, pale blue below, 

 longer than is usual with Finches ; legs and feet a pale bluish white ; 

 irides hazel. Male and female nearly alike in color. 



Species XII. ■ FRINGILLA CAUD ACUTA. 



SHARP-TAILED FINCH. 



[Plate XXXIV. Fig. 3] 

 Sharp-tailed Oriole, Lath. Gen. Syn. n., p. 448, pi. XVII. 



A BIRD of this denomination is described by Turton, Syst. p. 562, 

 but which by no means agrees with the present. This, however, may 

 be the fault of the describer, as it is said to be a bird of Georgia ; un- 

 willing, therefore, to multiply names unnecessarily, I have adopted his 

 appellation. In some future part of the work I shall settle this matter 

 with more precision. 



This new (as I apprehend it) and beautiful species as an associate of 

 the former, inhabits the same places, lives on the same food ; and resem- 

 bles it so much in manners, that but for their dissimilarity in some 

 essential particulars, I would be disposed to consider them as the same 

 in a different state of plumage. They are much less numerous than the 

 preceding, and do not run with equal celerity. 



Till' Sharp-tailed Finch is five inches and a quarter long, and seven 

 idclH'H and a quarter in extent ; bill dusky ; auriculars ash ; from the 

 bill over the eye, and also below it, run two broad stripes of brownish 

 orange ; chin whitish ; breast pale buff, marked with small pointed spots 

 of black; belly white ; vent reddish buff; from the base of the upper 

 mandible a broad stripe of pale ash runs along the crown and hind head, 

 bordered on each side by one of blackish brown ; back a yellowish brown 



