Kill XGILLIJJ.K — THE FLNCllES. 



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Gknus PYRGITA, Cu viKii. 



Pyrrjilii, Citvif.I!, H. A. 1817. (Type, Fiiixjilht doimslicn, LlNX.^ 



I'a.sser, ItuissuN, tJin. 17t)l). .Sum ■ type. Dkgi.and & Gi;i!lii:, Oiii. Kurop. I, lSfi7, 'JliO. 



Gkn". Ciiau. Bill mbiit^t, swolli'ii, without any distinct ridi^o ; u]);)t>r iiiul midiT DUlliiius 

 curvod ; luai-gin.s iiillexcd; piihiU,' viiultcd, without any kuoli ; nostrils covfivd hy sparse, 

 short, iii(.'Uinljuiit leathers; side of bill with still', ai)pi'essod bristles. Taisi short and stout, 

 about o(iual to or shorter than the middle toes; claws short, stout, and considerably curved. 

 Wings longer than tail ; somewhat pointed. Tail nearly even, einarginated, and slightly 

 rounded. 



P3rrgita domestica, Cuv. 



THE HOUSE SFASBOW. 



Fringilln domestica, Lixn. Syst. Nat. l^th cd. iSi, 17t)t). Pyrijitu dumcslu-n, Vvv. Itcg. 

 All. 2il ed. (18'2i)), 1, 439. /'«.«.•(:;• daineduuti, Dkulaxd & Uiniui:, Oriiitli. Kiuop. 1, 

 1.S67, 241. 



Sp. CiiAU. Millie. Above chestnut-brrrwn ; the intersrapulai- leal hers slrcaUed by blacU 

 on inner wel)s; the tup ol'head and nape, lower 

 back, rump, and tail-cover'.s i)lain ashy ; narrow 

 frontal line, lores, chin, throat, and jugidiun 

 black; rest of inider parts grayish, nearly white 

 along median region. A broad chestnut-brown 

 ."trijie from behind eye. rnmiing into the chest- 

 nut of back ; checks and sides of neck ■white; 

 outside of dosed wing, pale chestnut-brown, 

 with a broad white lian<l on the middle cov- 

 erts, and behind showing the brown ipiills; 

 the lcs^■^^ coverts dark chestmit like the h<'ad 

 stripe. Tail dark brown, edged with pale 

 chestnut. Hill black ; feet rc(ldish. Iris 

 brown. 



FcmiiJi: DmIIci' of color, and licking lln; black of face and throat; liicast ami alidoiiiru 

 reddish-ash; checks ashy ; a ycllow-oclire band above and behind the eyes, aiwl across 

 I he wings. Head and neck above lirownish-ash ; body above reddish-ash, streaked lon- 

 gitudinally with black. 



il/a/e in iriulcr. The ciilors generally K'ss disliiict. Length, fJ.tIO; wing, "2.8") ; tail, 

 '21)0; tarsus, .70; middle toe and claw, .(id. 



Tlic irou.'^o Spiirrow of ]Mir<i]M' has liceii iiitrodiici'd intn .so nniny pnrts 

 of tliL' Fiiiteil States as to roiiik'i' it jirohalile that at no distaul day it 

 will have lujcome one of our most fanuliar species. Brotijilit ovit to tiie 

 New World within a eoniparatively few years it has coiniueneed to inul- 

 ti])iy about tlie larger cities, especially in tlie environs of Xew York, as also 

 about Tortland, Uoston, Newark, and riiiladelphia. Tiio liv-'t ellort made to 

 natunili/e it about Washin^l m i'ailed in conse([ueiice of the death of three 

 hundred individuals imported iiy the Smithsonian Institution. A second. 



Pyriiitti itoifuslica. 



