164. F I N C H. 



PiAC£. Mr. Hutchins informs me, that this bird, or one greatly fimi- 



lar, comes into HudforCs Bay in Jpril, and departs in September, 

 Is called by the Nepetherway Indians, Nepin apethafijh. He 

 thinks it not unlikely, that my Mountain Finch, N° 16 *, may be 

 the fame fpecies. His bird differs fomewhat in the placing, as 

 well as the conftrudtion, of the neft j for it is made on the ground 

 among the _g-r^/f, and compofed o^ mud without, znAftra'vt) with- 

 in, lined with foft hair or down. The eg^i are the fame in num- 

 ber and colour. 



ELACK- 

 FACED F. 



Place, 



Black- faced Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 253. N" 3. — Ar£i. Zool. ii. N» 255. 



'TPHE circumftance of the fecond figure, in P/. Enl. 181, being 

 female to the other in the fame plate, feems to be doubted by 

 Mr. Pennant f . 



The fuppofed /^»3a/^ is certainly found in C^rc//«i3 ; the other 

 probably only inhabits Cayenne, I am the lefs capable of judging, 

 as neither of the birds in queflion has come under my infpeftion. 



RING SPAR. 

 ROW. 



Ring Sparrow, Gen, Syn, iii. p. 254. N«4. 



TUTR. Tunjtall informs me, that he had thefe birds living for 

 fome time, but never could find that they had any cry or 

 note. The ring on the breafts of fome was much brighter than 

 in others, and probably fuch were the male birds. 



* See obfervatioBs on the above bird in Aril, Zool, vol. ii. p. 373= 



Chaffinch^ 



