

SPECIES 14. FRINGILLA FERRUGINEA.* 



FOX-COLOURED SPARROW. 



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[Plate XXII. Fig. 4.] 



Rusty Bunting, Jlrct. Zool.p. 364, JVo. 231. Ib. 233. Ferruginous 

 Finch, Ib. 375, JVo. 25l.Fringilla rufa, BARTRAM, p. 291. 

 PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 6092. 



THIS plump and pretty species arrives in Pennsylvania from 

 the north about the twentieth of October; frequents low sheltered 

 thickets; associates in little flocks often or twelve, and is almost 

 continually scraping the ground, and rustling among the fallen 

 leaves. I found this bird numerous in November among the rich 

 cultivated flats that border the river Connecticut; and was in- 

 formed that it leaves those places in spring. I also found it in 

 the northern parts of the state of Vermont. Along the borders 

 of the great reed and cypress swamps of Virginia, and North 

 and South Carolina, as well as around the rice plantations, I ob- 

 served this bird very frequently. They also inhabit Newfound- 

 land.! They are rather of a solitary nature, seldom feeding in 

 the open fields; but generally under thickets, or among tall rank 

 weeds on the edges of fields. They sometimes associate with 

 the Snow-bird, but more generally keep by themselves. Their 

 manners very much resemble those of the Red-eyed Bunting 

 (Plate X, fig. 4.); they are silent, tame, and unsuspicious. 

 They have generally no other note while here than a shep, 

 shep; yet I suspect they have some song in the places where 



* Fringilla iliaca, MERHEM, Beytr. n, p. 40. t. 10. GMEL. i, p. 923. LATH. 

 Ind. Om. i, p. 43S.~Frlngilla ferruginea, GMEL, Syst. i, p, 921. LATH, 

 Syn. in, p. 272. 31. ftirf. Jnrf. Orn. i, ;>. 445, 



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