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mixed with ash-colour; over the eye an ash-coloured streak, growing 

 broader, and blending with the back of the neck, and beginning of 

 the back, which are the same, spotted with ferruginous ; on the 

 cheeks, under the eyes, a mixed rufous patch ; back ferruginous 

 brown; rump and tail ferruginous; wings the same, inclining to 

 brown at the ends, and inner webs of the feathers ; under parts of the 

 bird white, more or less marked with sagittal, broad, rufous spots, 

 running confluent on the breast; but on the middle of the belly 

 smaller dusky marks of the same shape; lower belly, thighs, and 

 vent, white ; legs flesh-colour ; the wings reach about to the base 

 of the tail. 



The female wants the ferruginous on the crown, and the white 

 over the eye is indistinct. 



Inhabits North America, from Hudson's Bay northward, to at 

 least as far as Georgia south ; at the former called Swamp Sparrow ; 

 in the latter, Red Sparrow ; called also Wilderness Sparrow ; arrives 

 there about the middle of November, and frequents the oak woods, 

 but is not very common. If the Swamp Sparrow of the American 

 Ornithology be the same, is said to arrive in Pennsylvania in April, 

 seen in the low grounds, and river courses ; and has two, or even 

 three broods in a year ; departing as the cold advances, though some 

 few continue : it makes the nest on the ground, in tussucks of rank 

 grass, amidst the water, and lays four dirty white eggs, marked with 

 rufous spots ; feeds on grass-seeds, wild oats, and insects ; has no 

 song, but merely a chirp ; rarely seen on trees, but in swamps, 

 skulking from one bush to another. 



103— SAVANNAH FINCH. 



Fringilla Savannarum, Ind. Orn. i. 443. Gm. Lin. i. 921. Amer. Orn. iv. pi. 34. 



male. Id. iii. pi. 22. f. 3— female. Shaiv's Zool. ix. 500. 

 Passer Jamaicensis, Bris. iii. 94. Id. 8vo. i. 334. 



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