FINCH. 13-3 



119— STREAKED-HEADED FINCH. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters ; breadth eight and a 

 half. Bill pale red brown ; head and neck yellow; crown streaked 

 with black, as in many Yellow Buntings; a divaricated streak, made 

 up of spots, on each jaw ; the upper parts of the bird marked with 

 purplish red spots on the back, each feather having a black streak 

 down the shaft ; lesser wing coverts reddish buff, with a few black 

 markings ; breast and sides marked with longish purple streaks ; the 

 middle of the belly, thighs, and vent yellowish white ; quills and 

 tail purplish brown, the edges of the feathers paler; tail moderately 

 cuneiform, or much rounded, the feathers somewhat pointed at the 

 ends ; legs pale. 



Inhabits Georgia, coming early in October, and retiring in spring ; 

 chiefly found among weeds and grass, and is the most rare of all the 

 Sparrows; called the Grass Sparrow. — Mr. Abbot. 



120— SONG FINCH. 



Fringilla melodia, Song Sparrow, Amer. Orn. ii. pi. 16. 4. 



THIS is six inches and a half long, extent eight inches and a 

 half. Bill horn-colour ; head above dark chestnut, divided by a pale 

 dirty white line ; over the eye a yellow oker line, inclining to ash ; 

 chin white ; gape of the mouth and hinder angle of the eye dark 

 chestnut; breast, and sides under the wings thickly marked with long- 

 pointed, dark chestnut spots, centered with black, running in chains ; 

 belly white; vent the colour of yellow oker; tail rounded, brown, 

 somewhat long, the two middle feathers streaked with black in the 

 middle ; wing coverts black, margined with bay, and tipped with 

 yellowish white ; quills dusky brown. 



