LACK, AND TOWHEE BUNTING. ^ 359 



FriDgilla Hudfonias, /'«r/?^/-. — P&. Tranf, \xu. — Latham, ii. 666. 223, Biack. 



Snow-bird, Catejby, i. 36. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



With a white fhort bill : blue eye : head, neck, wings, body, 

 and tail, of a footy blacknefs, edged with ruft : breaft, belly, 

 and vent, of a pure white : exterior fides of the primaries edged 

 with white -, of the fecondaries, with pale brown : exterior webs of 

 the outmoft feathers of the tail white : of the fpecimen defcribed 

 in the Tranfaftions, the two outmoft are wholly white, and the 

 third marked with a white fpot ; the reft dufky. Length fix 

 inches and a half: Extent nine : Weight half an ounce. 



Appears near Severn fettlement not fooner than June : ftays a Placs. 



fortnight : frequents the plains : feeds on grafs feeds : retires into the 

 ar^ic parts to breed. Returns to Hudfon's Bay in autumn, in its 

 paflage to the fouth. Migrates into New Tork, where it continues 

 the whole winter. Appears in the fouthern provinces, as low as 

 Carolina, but chiefly in fnow, or when the weather is harder than 

 ordinary *. Arrive in millions, in very rigorous feafons, and fly 

 about the houfes and barns to pick up the corn. Frequent the gar- 

 dens, and the fmall hills, to feed on the fcattered feeds of grafs. 

 Are called by the Swedes, Snovogel, or Snow-bird ; by xh^ Americans ^ . 

 Chuck-bird ■\, They do not change their colors ia any feafon of 

 the year. , Are efteemed very delicate meat. . ' 



Towhee-bird, Catejby, i. 34. — Latham, ii. 199. 224. Towhes, 



■ Frirgilla Erythrophthalma, Lin.SyJf. — BriJJhn, iii. 169^. 

 LePinfon noirj aux yeux rouges, De Buff on, iv. 141. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



With the head, coverts of the wings, whole upper fide of the 

 body, and breaft, black: middle of the belly white: fides 

 orange : quil feathers black, edged with white : tail long, and 



** Law/ofi, 146, •}• ita/ff;, ii. 51, 8!. 



7 black I 



