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RING SP. 
DsgscRipTion. 
PLAcE. 
EY (TANG: kat 
Fringilla petronia, Lin. Sy. i. p. 322. N° 30.—Frifeh. pl. ii. 
Le Moineau de bois, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 88. 6. ples. f. 3. 
La Soulcie, Buf. oi/- ill. p. 498. pl. 30. f. 1.-—P1, enl. 22 
Paffer torquatus, Rai Syn. p. 87..6.? 
Ring Sparrow, Will. orn. p. 250. 
Petronia marina, feu Oenanthe congener, Wil). orn. p. 267.——Raii Syn. 80. 2 
g2. 10. 
HIS is bigger than the Houfe Sparrow: length five inches 
and three quarters. Bill ftrong; the upper mandible 
brown, the other pale grey, with a brown tip: the head, and up- 
per part of the neck and back, dirty grey {potted with brown: 
rump the fame, but not fpotted: all beneath, dirty grey and 
white mixed: the fore part of the neck yellow: round the head, 
above the eyes, a ring of dirty white *: the wings not unlike the 
back: fome of the coverts, and the fecond quills, white at the 
ends: quills, and tail, dufky, edged with grey, and all the fea- 
thers, except the two middle ones, have a white {pot on the in- 
ner t web, near the tip. 
This bird frequents Europe, chiefly Coo in fome parts of 
which it is pretty numerous. 
It is alfo found in Italy; and is migratory, except in the 
warmer climates, where it frequents woods, and builds in the 
holes of trees. Has one brood in a year, and lays four or five 
eggs, At the end of Fuly collects into flocks, and remains fo 
* In the Planches Enluminées, the whole-head, above the eyes, is rufty cream- 
colour, furrounded by a ring of black, and beneath that a ring of white. 
+ Linnzus fays, the ipot is on the outer webs, and the exterior margin of the 
outer one white. 
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