SPECIES 4. FRINGILLA 



TREE SPARROW. 

 [Plate XVI. Fig. 3.] 



LeSoulciet, BUFF, in, 500. Moineaude Canada, BRISS. in, 101* 



PL Enl. 223. LATH, ir, 252. EDW. 269. Arct. Zool. p. 373, 

 JVb. 246. PEALE'S Museum, No. 6575. 



THIS Sparrow is a native of the north, who takes up his win- 

 ter quarters in Pennsylvania, and most of the northern states, 

 as well as several of the southern ones. He arrives here about 

 the beginning of November; and leaves us again early in April; 

 associates in flocks with the Snow-birds, frequents sheltered hol- 

 lows, thickets, and hedge-rows, near springs of water; and has 

 a low warbling note, scarcely audible at the distance of twenty 

 or thirty yards. If disturbed takes to trees, like the White- 

 throated Sparrow, but contrary to the habit of most of the others, 

 who are inclined rather to dive into thickets. Edwards errone- 

 ously represented this as the female of the Mountain Sparrow; 

 but that judicious and excellent naturalist, Pennant, has given 

 a more correct account of it, and informs us, that it inhabits 

 the country bordering on Hudson's bay during summer; comes 

 to Severn settlement in May; advances farther north to breed; 

 and returns in autumn on its way southward. It also visits 

 Newfoundland.! 



* The specific name, canodensis, given by BRISSON and adopted by LATHAM, 

 must be restored to this bird. The following synonymes may be quoted. Frin- 

 gilla montico/a, GMEL. Syst. i, p. 912. Passer Canadensis, BRISS. in, p. 102. 

 15. Id. 8vo. i, p. 335. Mountain Finch, LATH. Syn. in, p. 265. 16. Frinplla 

 ranadensis, LATH. Ind. Orn. i, p. 434, 



f Arct. Zool, vol. II, p. 373, 



