224 SAVANNAH SPARROW. 
SAVANNAH SPARROW.—FRINGILLA SAVANNA. — Fie. 102.— 
y Femace.* 
Peale’s Museum, No. 6584. 
ZONOTRICHIA SAVANNA. —Janvine. 
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 ee pe 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, , 
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, prétty 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. 
