SEA-SIDE FINCH. 105 



From Texas to Massachusetts along the shores of the Atlantic. Resident 

 in the Southern States. Abundant. 



Sea-sid- Finch, Fringilla, maritima, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iv. p. 68. 

 Fringilla maritima, Bonap. Syn., p. 110. 



Sea-side Finch, Fringilla maritima, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 505. 

 Sea-side Finch, Fringilla maritima, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 471. 



Third and fourth quills longest, first and eighth equal; tail graduated; 

 upper parts brownish-grey, tinged with olivaceous, two faint longitudinal 

 bands of darker on the head; the feathers on the fore part of the back brown 

 in the centre; margin of the wing at the flexure light yellow, smaller wing- 

 coverts and outer webs of secondary coverts dull reddish-brown; quills and 

 tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with pale brownish-grey; a yellow band 

 from the base of the upper mandible over the eye, fainter behind; throat 

 greyish-white, with a longitudinal bluish-grey band on each side; lower 

 part of neck, fore part of breast and sides light bluish-grey, streaked with 

 light olivaceous-brown; middle of breast pale grey, abdomen white, lower 

 tail coverts pale yellowish-brown, with a central dusky streak. 



Male, 8, 11. 



The Carolina Rose. 



Rosa Carolina, Pursch, Flor. Amer., p. 345.— Icosandria Polygynia, Linn.— Rosa- 

 cea, Jass. 



This beautiful species, which attains a height of five or six feet, is gene- 

 rally characterized by its globose germens, which, with the peduncles, are 

 more or less hispid; its hairy petioles, slightly curved prickles, and oblongo- 

 lanceolate, acute, serrated leaflets, which are glaucous beneath. It varies 

 greatly, however, like many other species of the same genus. 



