FIELD BUNTING. 79 



Field Sparrow, Fringilla pusilla, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 121. 

 Fringilla pusilla, Bonap. Syn., p. 110. 



Field or Rush Sparrow, Fringilla juncorum, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 499. 

 Field Sparrow, Fringilla pusilla, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 229. 



Adult Male. 



Bill short, rather small, strong, conical, acute; upper mandible rather 

 narrower than the lower, very slightly declinate at the tip, rounded on the 

 sides, as is the lower, which has the edges inflected and acute; the gap-line 

 very slightly arched, slightly deflected at the base. Nostrils basal, roundish, 

 partially concealed by the feathers. The general form rather robust. 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, slightly arched, that of the hind toe scarcely 

 larger, much compressed, acute. 



Plumage soft, blended, rather compact on the back; wings shortish, curved, 

 rounded, the third quill longest, the second and fourth scarcely shorter; tail 

 long, emarginate. 



Bill reddish-brown or cinnamon-colour. Iris chestnut. Feet pale yel- 

 lowish-brown. Upper part of the head chestnut; anterior portion of the 

 back and scapulars of the same tint, but marked with blackish-brown spots, 

 the middle part of each feather being of that colour; sides of the neck pale 

 bluish-grey, and a line of the same over the eye; rump and tail yellowish- 

 grey, the inner webs of the latter light-brown; quills and coverts blackish- 

 brown, margined with whitish, the two rows of coverts slightly tipped with 

 brownish-white; the under parts are greyish-white; the sides of the neck 

 and fore part of the breast tinged with chestnut. 



Length 6 inches, extent of wings 8; bill along the back \, along the 

 edge T 5 j. 



The female is rather less, and somewhat duller beneath, but in other 

 respects is precisely similar. 



Calopogon pulchellus, Brown. — Cymbididm pulchellum, Willcl., Sp. PI., vol. iv. p. 

 105. Putsch, Fl. Amer. Sept., vol. ii. p. 592. — Gynandria Monandria, Linn — 

 Orchideje, Juss. 



Root tuberous, of an oblong form; radical leaves linear-lanceolate, nerved; 

 scape few-flowered; lip at the back clawed, the inside bearded; five distinct 

 petals of a light purplish-red. It grows in sandy soils from Maine to the 

 Floridas; I have not observed it in the more Southern or Western States. 



