70 SAVANNAH BUNTING. 



and size of the nests, as well as the colour of the eggs of this bird, found by 

 myself or the members of my party, differed from those examined in Maine, 

 or in any other part of the United States. The nests were deeply sunk in 

 the moss, always placed under the cover of creeping branches of low firs, and 

 much more bulky than usual, although composed of the same materials. 

 The eggs in most instances were of an extremely pale greenish hue, slightly 

 spotted and splashed with light umber. They measured 6^ eighths of an 

 inch in length, and rather more than four and a half eighths in breadth. It 

 breeds abundantly among the high grass at Chelsea Beach, near Boston. 



From Texas to the Columbia river, and along the whole Atlantic coast to 

 Nova Scotia. Extremely abundant during winter in all the Southern States. 

 Breeds from Maryland eastward. 



Savannah Finch, Fringilla savanna, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iv. p. 72. 



Fringilla savanna, Bonap. Syn., p. 109. 



Savannah Sparrow, Fringilla savanna, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 489. 



Savannah Finch, Fringilla savanna, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 63; vol. v. p. 516. 



Adult Male. 



Bill short, conical, acute; upper mandible straight in its dorsal outline, 

 rounded on the sides, as is the lower, which has the edges sharp and inflected; 

 the gap-line straight, not extending to beneath the eye. Nostrils basal, 

 roundish, open, concealed by the feathers. Head rather large. Neck short. 

 Legs of moderate length, slender; tarsus longer than the middle toe, covered 

 anteriorly with a few longish scutella; toes scutellate above, free, the lateral 

 ones nearly equal; claws slender, compressed, acute, slightly arched; that of 

 the hind toe a little larger. 



Plumage soft and blended. Wings shortish, curved, rounded, the third 

 and fourth quills longest. Tail short, emarginate. 



Bill pale brown beneath, dusky above. Iris brown. Feet light flesh- 

 colour. Cheeks and space over the eye light citron-yellow. The general 

 colour of the plumage above is pale reddish-brown, spotted with brownish- 

 black, the edges of the feathers being of the former colour. The lower 

 parts are white, the breast marked with small deep brown spots, the sides 

 with long streaks of the same. 



Length 5 1 - inches; extent of wings S|; bill along the ridge T 5 2, along the 

 gap T V, tarsus |f . 



The Indian Pink-root or Worm-grass. 



Spigelia marilandica, Pursch, Fl. Amer. Sept., vol.i. p. 139.— Pentandria Monogynia, 

 Linn.— Afocyne^, Juss. Fig. 1. of the Plate. 



