296 BAY-WINGED BUNTING. 
on the head being less pure, the black also less in extent, and the ash 
on the breast darker; she is also smaller in size. ‘ 
There is a'considerable resemblance between this species and the 
White-throated Sparrow, already described in this work. Yet they 
rarely associate together; the latter remaining in the lower parts of 
Pennsylvania in great numbers, until the beginning of May, when 
they retire to the north and to the high inland regions to breed; the 
former inhabiting much, more northern countries; and, though said to 
be.common in Canada, rarely visiting this part of the United States. 
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BAY-WINGED BUNTING—EMBERIZA GRAMINEA.— 
Fie. 144. 
Grass Finch, Arct. Zool. No. 253: — Lath. iii. 273.— Turton, Syst. i. p. 565. 
ZONOTRICHIA GRAMINEA, — Swainson. 
Fringilla graminea, Bonap. Synop. p. 103.— Fringilla (Zonotrichia) graminea, 
da : North. a ii, p. 5K. ; 
Tae manners of this bird bear great affinity to those of the Common 
Bunting of Britain. It delights in frequenting grass and clover fields, 
perches on the tops of the fences, singing, from the middle of April to 
the beginning of July, with a clear and pleasant note, in which par- 
ticular it far excels its European relation. It is partially a bird of 
passage here, some leaving us, and others remaining with us during 
the winter. In the monthof March I observed them numerous in the 
lower parts of Georgia, where, according to Mr. Abbot, they are only 
winter visitants. They frequent the middle of fields more than 
hedges or thickets; run along the grotind like a Lark, which they 
also resemble in the great breadth of their wings. They are timid 
birds, and rarely approach the farm-house. 
Their nest is built on the ground, in a grass or clover field, and 
formed of old withered, leaves and dry grass, and lined with hair. 
The female lays four or five eggs, of a grayish white. On the first 
week in May, I found one of their nests with four young, from which 
circumstance I think it probable that they raise two or more broods 
in the same season. 
This bird measures five inches and three quarters in length, and ten 
inches and a half.in extent; the upper parts are cinereous brown, mot- 
tled with deep brown or black; lesser wing-coverts, bright bay; 
greater, black, edged with very pale brown; wings, dusky, edged with 
brown; the exterior primary, edged with white; tail, sub-cuneiform, 
the outer feather white on the exterior edge, and tipped with white; 
the next, tipped and edged for half an inch with the same; the rest, 
dusky, edged with pale brown; bill, dark brown above, paler below; 
round the eye is a narrow circle of white; upper part of the breast, 
yellowish white, thickly streaked with pointed spots of black tha pass 
