FINCH. 137 



125.— NORTON FINCH. 



FringiHa Nortoniensis, Ind. Orn. i. 446. Gm. Lin. i. 922. Shaw's Zool. ix. 485. 

 Norton Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 274. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 256. 



HEAD, neck behind, and secondaries, black, edged with bright 

 bay; the middle order crossed with a white line; primaries dusky ; 

 sides of the neck, and fore part, spotted down the middle with rust- 

 colour ; tail dusky, edged with dirty white ; along the middle of the 

 outer feather a pure white line, ending at the tip. 



Inhabits Norton Sound. — Mr. Pennant. 



126.— SHARP-TAILED FINCH. 



FringiHa caudacuta, Ind. Orn. i. 450. Shaw's Zool. ix. 515. 

 Sharp-tailed Finch, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 208. 



LENGTH five inches, extent of the wings eight. Bill and legs 

 pale ; irides dark brown ; plumage in general mottled brown, and 

 pale rufous, the last chiefly at the edges of the feathers ; throat pale 

 rufous, and a streak of the same over the eyes ; lower part of the 

 neck behind rufous, but darker than the throat; tail even at the end, 

 but the tips of all the feathers slope off to a sharp point. 



Inhabits the internal parts of Georgia, and, perhaps, may be 

 what is there called the Yellow-pinioned Grass Sparrow, which 

 frequents thickets and grass, round the sides of ponds, in Burke 

 Country ; supposed to remain nearly in the same place throughout 

 the year. Is not very common. This appears to coincide in some 

 points with our Sharp-tailed Oriole, but differs in the shape of the 

 tail, being even at the end. 



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