142 PINCH. 



The female much like the male, but pale ; in both sexes the 

 lower part of the neck, especially the back part, inclines to ash- 

 colour ; forehead ash ; feathers of the wings and tail margined with 

 whitish, not inclining to red as in the male. 



Inhabits Georgia ; very common in the winter, in trees and 

 thickets, in plantations. — Mr. Abbot. 



A. — A Variety is mentioned, very pale rufous above, a pale 

 streak over the eye; the under parts, quills, and tail, white. 



B. — A second Variety with the crown, back, shoulders, rump, 

 and ends of the tail, dusky spotted ; the rest of the bird white. 

 This appears not uncommon in the lower parts of the country, about 

 Savannah, in Georgia ; sometimes in Burke Country. 



I have ventured to put the quotation from the Amer. Ornith. at 

 the head, supposing it to be the same here described; which the 

 author says, comes into Pennsylvania in April, makes a nest on the 

 ground, lined with hair, and lays six eggs, so thickly sprinkled with 

 ferruginous, as to appear wholly of that colour; that the bird has 

 mostly two, and sometimes three broods in the season. It will often 

 stay the whole year, but generally disappears in the winter months, 

 when a deep snow comes on, at which time they are found in num- 

 bers in Georgia ; from which last it departs on the return of spring. 

 Is the smallest of all the American Sparrows ; has no song but a 

 chirp, not unlike the noise made by a cricket. — In this work the 

 male is described having a chestnut crown, divided by a slight streak 

 of drab, widening as it passes backwards ; cheeks, line over the eyes, 

 breast, and sides under the wings, brownish clay, darker on the ears, 

 and paler on the chin. 



The female much the same, but the chestnut crown brighter in 

 the male. 



