150 FINCH. 



148— SEA-SIDE FINCH. 



Fringilla maritima, Sea-side Finch, Amer. Orn. iv. pi. 34. f. 2. 



LENGTH six inches, extent eight. Bill dusky, pale blue 

 beneath, and rather elongated ; irides hazel ; crown brownish olive, 

 divided laterally by a stripe of slate blue, or fine light ash ; back, 

 wings, and tail, yellowish brown olive, intermixed with very pale 

 blue; chin pure white, bordered on the sides by a stripe of dark 

 ash, from each base of the under mandible ; above that another of 

 white ; from the nostrils, over the eye, another of rich yellow, 

 bordered above with white, and ending with yellow olive; breast ash- 

 colour, streaked with buff; belly white ; vent buff, streaked with 

 black ; greater and lesser wing coverts tipped with dull white ; edge 

 of the wing, at the bend, rich yellow; primaries edged with the same 

 immediately below their coverts ; tail cuneiform, olive brown, 

 centred with black ; legs pale bluish white. Male and female 

 much alike. 



Inhabit the rush-covered sea islands along the Atlantic coast, 

 keeping within the boundaries of the tide water in general, searching 

 among the interstices of the sea weed and wrack, with a rapidity 

 equalled only by the nimblest of our Sandpipers, and much in their 

 manner. The flesh is not good, as it tastes fishy, or sedgy, owing 

 to the bird eating shrimps, minute shell-fish, &c. the stomach being 

 always found full of fragments of the latter : often roosts on the 

 ground, and runs about after dusk. 



149— CHIPPING FINCH. 



Fringilla socialis, Chipping Sparrow, Am. Orn. ii. pi. 16. f. 5. Bartr. Trav. p. 291. 



LENGTH five inches and a quarter, breadth eight. Bill black, 

 under mandible, in summer, flesh-colour ; frontlet black ; crown 



