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O R D. III. G E N. VI. FINCH. 



SPE. II. TREE SPARROW. 

 PI. 72. 



Fringilla montana. Lin. Syft. I. p. 3 2 4~ 



Le Moineau de Montagne. Brif. Orn. III. p. 79. 



The bill is dark horn colour, the bafe yellowifh : eyes dark hazel: top of the 

 head, back of the neck, and Ihoulders, a bright chefnut colour: chin black: 

 cheeks and throat white : on each fide of the head are a black fpot, and a line 

 of black from the bafe of the bill under the eye : the bread and under parts dull 

 white: greater and lefs wing coverts reddifh brown ; the middle of each of the 

 feathers is black; the ends white: quills dufky black, edged with chefnut co- 

 lour: tail dark brown: back brown, marked with black dafiies: the legs pale 

 red. 



The female is paler in colour than the male, and is without the black marks 

 on the fide of the head and throat. 



I never met with this bird but in marfhes, and among reeds near rivers. 

 It is faid to be common in Lincolnlhire, to make its neft in trees, and to col- 

 ledl in flocks in hard weather. This fpecies may be readily diftinguifhed from 

 the common fparrow, as it is lefs, and the top of the head is of a beautiful chef- 

 nut colour, which in the houfe fparrow is grey: it is likewife without the black 

 on the throat. 



