TREE, BAHAMA, AND WHITE-THROATED FINCH, 373 



Br. ZooU i. N° iz8. 246. Tree. 



Mountain Sparrow, fern. Edw. z6g. — Latham, ii. z;2, 265. 



Moineau de Canada, BriJJin, iii. 102. — Pi. Enl. 223. 



Le Soulciet, De Buffon, iii. 500. — Bl. Mus. — Lev. Mus. 



With the end of the bill duflcy ; bafe of the lower mandible 

 yellow: cheeks, and under fide of the neck, pale afh-color : 

 from the bafe of the bill, on each fide, is a red line paffing above 

 the throat ; crown, hind part of the neck, and feathers on the ridge 

 of the wings, bay: back ferruginous, fpotted with black: coverts 

 of the wings black, edged with ruft-color, -and crofled with two 

 bars of white : belly and breaft of a dirty white : tail duflcy, edged 

 with afh-color. LengtrAx inches and a half: Extent ten. 



Inhabits Hudfon's Bay during fummer. Comes to Severn fettlemenc PLacs.- 



in May. Advances farther north to breed; and returns in autumn, 

 in its way fouthward. Found alfo in Penjylvania. Suppofed, by 

 Mr. Edwards, to be the female of the Tree, or Mountain Sparrow, 

 Br. Zool. I. N" 128 ; but as I have had opportunity of feeing fpe- 

 cimens of this bird from Hudfon's Bay, Newfoundland, and New 

 Tork *, all of which agreed in marks and colors, I have no doubt, 

 but that it is a diftindl- fpecies- 



Bahama Sparrow, Catejby, i. 37. — Latham, ii. 300.- 



Fringilla bicolor, Lin. Syft. 324. 



Le Verdier de Bahama, BriJJoti, iiL 202. — Lev. Mus, 



347' Bahamao 



17 With the head, neck,, and breaft, black : the remaining parts- 

 of a dirty green color. Size of a Canary-bird. 

 Inhabits the woods of the Bahama iflands. Sits perched on a Place.. 



bufli, and fings, repeating one fet tune, 



Ed'war^s, 304.' — Latham, 11.272. — Bl. Mus. 



248. Whiti= 



With a broad bar croffing from the bill, over each eye, to- throateb, 

 ' wards the hind part of the head ; orange-colored near the bill j 



• Si. Mus.. 

 3 " . whit© 



