346 APPENDIX. 



Sciences, Vol. 7, part II., page 188. Audubon's Birds of Ame- 

 rica, Vol. IV., pi. 398. Male and female. 



The bill is a pale flesh color, the upper mandible brownish at 

 the point ; head, neck, and upper part of the breast, black ; the 

 feathers slightly tipped with white ; on the hind-head and back 

 of the neck, are some touches of brown or bay, mixed with the 

 white sprinkling ; back rufous-brown or bay ; rump grayish- 

 plumbeous, slightly touched with bay ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail cinereous, the former slightly tipped with pale brown, the 

 outer vanes of the feathers of the latter edged with the same 

 color; first lateral tail-feather pure white ; second white, with the 

 exception of a small edging of cinereous on the outer vane, near 

 the tip ; third, with a broad stripe of white on the inner vane, 

 extending from the point nearly to the base; wings dark cinereous, 

 the outer vanes edged with whitish, the greater coverts and ter- 

 tials margined with bay ; third and fourth primaries nearly equal, 

 and longest ; lower part of the breast and belly white ; flanks 

 light yellowish-bay, the lower tail-coverts with a lighter tint of 

 the same color ; tibial feathers cinereous, spotted v/ith gray. 

 Legs and feet flesh-color ; claws light horn color. Length 5| 

 inches. Extent of wing 8| inches. 



The female is very similar to the male, except that the general 

 colors are somewhat fainter. 



Common on the Columbia river in winter. Gregarious. 

 Voice, and general habits similar to F. hyemalis. 



Prairie Finch. 



Fringilla *bicolo?-, (Townsend,) Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences, 

 Vol. 7, part. II., p. 189. Audubon's Birds of America, Vol. IV., 

 pi. 390. Male and female. 



The head and back are black, shaded with ash ; rump ash ; 

 superior tail-coverts and tail, blackish-brown, the former slightly 

 edged with white ; all the feathers of the latter tipped with white ; 

 a broad patch of white upon the wing ; secondaries and tertials 

 tipped and edged with white ; throat, cheeks, and whole lower 

 parts, deep black, the feathers on the belly, and the inferior tail- 

 coverts, tipped with white. The upper mandible is of a lightish 

 brown color, the lower, pale bluish-white. Legs and feet olive- 

 brown. Length 7^ inches. Extent about 11 inches. 



