134 FINCH. 



Inhabits New York and Pennsylvania ; builds the nest on the 

 ground, under a tussuck of fine dried grass, lined with hair; lays 

 four or five bluish white eggs, thickly marked with reddish brown 

 spots; sometimes has three broods in a year; but it does not always 

 build in the same manner ; for the nest has been found in a bush, 

 five or six feet from the ground ; frequents the borders of rivers 

 and meadows, swamps, &c. has a short sweet note, somewhat like 

 the beginning of a Canary Finch's, chanting for an hour together. 

 It passes southward in November ; if wounded, or unable to fly, is 

 said to take to the water readily, and to swim with rapidity. Is 

 esteemed the most numerous, and most lasting songster. 



121.—FASCIATED FINCH. 



Fringilla fasciata, hid. Orn. i. 445. Got. Lin. i. 922. Shaw's Zool. ix. 505. 

 Fasciated Finch, Gen. Syn.'ni. 273. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 252. 



CROWN, hind part of the neck, and back, rust-coloured, 

 spotted with black ; the spots largest on the back; wings plain rust- 

 colour ; primaries dusky, edged with dirty white ; under parts of the 

 body white, marked with streaks of black, pointing downwards; tail 

 brown, crossed with numerous dusky bars. 

 Inhabits New York. 



122.— GRASS FINCH. 



Fringilla graminea, Ind. Orn. i. 445. Got. Lin. i. 922. Shaw's Zool. ix. 504. 

 Emberiza graminea, Bay-winged Bunting, Amer. Orn. iv. pi. 31. f. 5. 

 Grass Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 273. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 253. 



LENGTH six inches, breadth ten. Bill dark brown, paler 

 beneath ; round the eye a narrow circle of white ; head, upper part 

 of the neck, and back, cinereous, rush-coloured, and black, edged 



