Ren Ween 1c) TH, 
Le Moineau de Canada, Bri. orn. iil. p. 102. 15.—P/, exl. 223. f. 2: 
Le Soulciet, Buf. cif. ili. p. 500. 
Mountain Finch, 4r@. Zool. 
GIZE of a Sparrow: length fix inches and a half. Bill reddifh: 
the upper parts brown, mixed with darker brown; quills and 
tail darkeft, edged with a paler colour: acrofs the wings two bars 
of white: the crown of the head chefnut, mixed in the middle 
with grey brown: fides of the head and neck, and all the under 
parts, white: legs brown. 
Inhabits Canada. 
Le Dattier, ou Moineau de Datte, Buf. oi/. ili. p. 487. 
Capfa Sparrow, Shaw’s Trav. p. 253. 
HIS has a fhort, thick bill; the upper mandible black, the 
under yellowifh ; about the gape a few briftles: the fore 
part of the head, and throat, are white: the reft of the head, the 
neck, the upper and under parts of the body, grey, more or lefs 
inclining to red, but moft fo on the breaft *: the wings and tail. 
are black; the lait rather forked ; the wings reach two-thirds on 
the tail: legs yellowith. 
This bird is met with in Adyfinia, and is alfo found in Bar- 
bary, to the fouth of Tumis: it flies in flocks, and is frequent 
about granaries, &c. like our Sparrow: often feen in the date 
villages to the weft of the Lake of Marks: has an exceeding fine 
note, much better than that of a Canary-bird or Nightingale ; 
but will not bear tranfporting from its native place. © 
* Shaw makes it all over of a Lark-colour, except the breaft, which is 
lighter, and fhines like that of a Pigeon, He fays it is as big as a Sparrow. 
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DEsCRIPTION. 
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