45S 



TREE SPARROW FINCH. Class II. 



5. Tree 



Sparrow. 



Fringilla montana. Fr. remi- 

 gibus rectricibusque fuscis, 

 corpore griseo nigroque, ala- 

 rum fascia alba gemina. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 433. id. 

 Syn. iii. 252. id. Sup. i. 

 163. 



Passerinus. Gesner av. 656. 



Aldr. av. ii. 26l. 



Olina, 48. 



Wil. orn. 252. 



Rait Syn. av. 87. . 



Edw. av. 26Q. 



Le Moineau de Montagne, 



Passer montanus. Brisson 



av. iii. 79. 

 Le Friquet. Hist. a"ois. 48Q. 



PL Enl. c 267-f. 1. 

 Passere Montano. Zinan. 81. 

 Fringilla montana. Gm. Lin. 



925. 

 Faun. Suec. sp, 243. 

 Scopoli, No. 221. 

 Skov-Spurre. Brunnich, 267. 

 Feldspatz, Rohrspatz, Kram. 



370. Frisck, i. 1. 

 Br. Zool. 109. Arct. Zool. ii. 



62. 



TION. 



Descrip- XHIS species is inferior in size to the common 

 sparrow. The bill is thick and black; the 

 crown of the head, hind part of the neck, 

 and the lesser coverts of the wings are of a 

 bright bay; the two first plain, the last spot- 

 ted with black; the chin black; the cheeks 

 and sides of the head white, marked with a 

 great black spot beneath each ear ; the breast 

 and belly of a dirty white; just above the 

 greater coverts is a row of feathers black 

 edged with white ; the greater coverts are black 

 edged with rust color ; the quil feathers dusky, 

 edged with pale red ; the lower part of the back 

 of an olive brown ; the tail brown ; the legs 

 straw color. 



