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133— RUFOUS FINCH. 



LENGTH six inches, breadth eight. Bill dusky ; head brown, 

 streaked with rufous ; in the middle of the crown a cinereous stripe; 

 at the gape a broad stripe of pale ash-colour, passing through the 

 eye to the breast on each side, where it changes to white, and con- 

 tinues to the vent ; chin ash-colour, streaked with brown ; upper 

 parts of the body brown, mixed with ferruginous and black ; and 

 some of the secondaries edged with white; rump streaked with black; 

 tail rounded, brown, the outer margins ferruginous, the feathers 

 pointed at the ends ; the wings, when closed, scarcely cover the end 

 of the rump; legs dull yellow. 



The female like the male, but the colours less bright. 



Inhabits Georgia, frequents thick briers and low grassy plats of 

 some plantations in the winter, but is not common. 



134— LESSER RUFOUS FINCH. 



LENGTH five inches, breadth seven and a half. Bill pale 

 brown ; the whole of the head and body tinged with rufous, most so 

 on the crown; mixed with paler spots on the back; second wing 

 coverts with whitish tips, forming a bar ; through the eye and sides 

 of the head pale, and the breast plain coloured; belly, thighs, and 

 vent, white ; lesser wing coverts pale dull ash, the rest of the feathers 

 of the wing dusky, except the outer margins, which are rufous; tail 

 rather long, and a trifle forked, black, and one inch and a quarter 

 in length ; legs pale. 



Inhabits Georgia in winter, frequenting plantations and thickets. 

 I am informed by Mr. Abbot, that this is known by the name of the 

 Lesser Rufous Sparrow, as the former is by that of the Greater. 



