224 SAVANNAH SPARROW. 
SAVANNAH SPARROW.—FRINGILLA SAVANNA. — Fic. 102.— 
FEemaLe.® ’ : 
Peale’s Museum, No. 6584, 
ZONOTRICHIA SAVANNA. —Janvinz. 
Fringilla Savanna, Bonap. Synop. p. 108. 
‘Tus new species is an inhabitant. of the low countries on the 
Atlantic coast, from Savannah, where I first discovered it, to the state 
of New York, and is generally resident in these places, though rarely 
found inland, or far from the sea-shore. The drawing of this bird 
was in the hands of the engraver before I was aware that the male (a 
figure of which will appear ae bare was so much its superior in 
beauty of markings and in general colors. With a representation of 
the male will also be given particulars of their nest, eggs, and man- 
ners, which, from the season, and the few specimens I had the oppor- 
tunity of procuring, I was at that time unable to’collect. I have since 
found these birds numerous, on the sea-shore, in the state of New 
Jersey, particularly near Great Egg Harbor. . A pair of these I pre- 
sented to Mr. Peale of this city, in whose noble collection they now 
occupy a place. a. 
The female of the Savannah Sparrow is five inches and a half long, 
and eight and a half in extent; the plumage of the back is mottled 
with black, bright bay, and whitish; chin, white; breast, marked with 
pointed spots of black, edged with bay, running in chains from each 
base of the lower mandible; sides, touched with long streaks of the 
same; temples, marked with a spot of delicate yellow; ear-feathers, 
slightly tinged with the same; belly, white, and a little streaked; 
inside of the shoulders, and lining of the wing, pale yellowish; first 
and second rows of wing-coverts, tipped with whitish; secondaries 
next the body, pointed and very black, edged also with bay; tail, 
slightly forked, and without any white feathers; legs, pale flesh color; 
hind claw, pretty long. _ ; 
The very slight distinctions of color which Nature has drawn 
between many distinct species of this family of Finches, render these 
minute and tedious descriptions absolutely necessary, that the particu- 
lar species may be precisely discriminated. : 
* The Male is figured, No. 153. 
