124 FINCH. 



Passer Pratorum, Klein, 89. 11. 



Savannah Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 270. Rail, 188. Sloan. Jam. ii. 306. pi. 259. 5. 



LENGTH five inches and a half, breadth eight and a half. Bill 

 pale brown ; eyebrows and ears Naples yellow ; breast and under 

 parts pure white, on the former small pointed brown spots ; upper 

 parts pale, whitish drab-colour, mottled with reddish brown ; wing 

 coverts edged and tipped with white; tertials black, edged with 

 white and bay ; tail slightly forked, plain ; legs pale flesh-colour, 

 hind claw pretty long. 



The female has the back mottled black, bright bay, and whitish ; 

 chin white ; breast marked with pointed spots of black, edged with 

 bay, appearing as chains from the base of the under mandible on 

 each side ; sides touched with long streaks of the same ; on the 

 temples and ears a spot of delicate yellow; belly white, a little 

 streaked ; the rest as in the male. 



Young birds are less, and much darker in colour. In winter this 

 species frequents the sea shores of Pennsylvania, going away in 

 spring into the interior. The nest said to be made among the grass, 

 and the young to fly about the end of May. 



I have ranked the Savannah Finch of Jamaica and this under 

 one head, on supposition of their being the same. Sloane tells us, 

 that in Jamaica it sits on the ground in the plains, and runs thereon 

 in the manner of the Skylark, and when disturbed, flies neither far, 

 nor high, but alights again very near. 



104— GREY-HEADED FINCH. 



Fringilla cana, Jnd. Om. i. 443. Gm. Lin. i. 920. Shaw's Zool. ix. 494. 



Serinus Jamaicensis, Bris. iii. 1S9. Id. 8vo. i. 359. 



Serino affinis Avis e cinereo luteo et fusco varia, Raii, 188. Sloan. Jam., ii. 311. Klein, 



89. 12. 

 Grey-headed Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 270. 



LENGTH eight inches, breadth twelve. Bill three quarters of 

 an inch, upper mandible bluish brown, the under paler; head and 



