144 PINCH. 



135.— SPOTTED-BREASTED FINCH. 



LENGTH five inches, breadth nine. Bill pale ; general colour 

 of the plumage purplish brown; down the middle of the crown a 

 pale stripe, and a broad cinereous one from the bill, occupying 

 almost the whole side of the head, divided behind the eye by a brown 

 streak ; from the under mandible a kind of whisker ; chin and and 

 under parts of the body nearly white, with patches and streaks of 

 brown, especially across the breast, but the middle of the belly is 

 plain ; wings and tail brown, the latter very little rounded at the end; 

 the wings reach just to the rump ; legs pale. 



Inhabits Georgia, often in company with the Spotted Finch, and 

 others ; and called Spotted-breasted Sparrow. 



136— WINTER FINCH. 



Fringilla hyemalis, Lid. Om. i. 446. Gm. Lin. i. 922. Shaw's Zool. ix. 490. 

 Winter Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 274. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 254. 



HEAD, neck, and breast, light brown, mottled with black ; fore 

 part of the neck, breast, and sides, white, marked with small brown 

 spots ; belly plain white ; wing coverts and primaries brown, edged 

 with white. — Found at New York in the winter. 



One sent by Mr. Abbot from Georgia, under the name of Winter 

 Sparrow, was six inches and a half long, and nine broad. 



137— LITTLE WINTER FINCH. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill as in the Linnet ; crown chestnut 

 brown down the middle, body above ash brown, the feathers darker 

 within ; wing coverts dusky, edged with tawny, the second and third 



