FINCH. 151 



chestnut; chin and line over the eye whitish; back varied black, 

 and bright bay ; rump dark ash-colour ; wings black, the feathers 

 broadly edged with bright chestnut ; breast and sides of the neck 

 pale ash ; belly and vent white ; tail rather forked, dusky, slightly 

 edged with pale ochre yellow ; legs pale flesh-colour. 



The female differs, in having less black on the frontlet, and the 

 bay duller ; but both sexes lose the black front in moulting, only 

 having it in the summer ; and the young wholly without it the first 

 season . 



Inhabits Pennsylvania ; is domestic and sociable, building in the 

 streets and gardens, on the branches of trees, and in cedar by pre- 

 ference, picking up crumbs from the yards and doors ; the nest lined 

 thickly with hair; the eggs four or five, light blue, with a few 

 purplish spots near the great end : at the end of summer, when the 

 weather is severe, departs for the south. 



150.— TAWNY-RUMPED FINCH. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill dusky ; head pale ash-colour, 

 blending by degrees with the back, which is tawny brown ; lower 

 part of the latter, rump, and upper tail coverts, fine tawny, or very 

 pale rust; wing coverts tawny ; the rest of the wing most inclined to 

 brown ; quills brown, the exterior margins tawny brown ; under 

 parts from the chin very pale, or whitish ash-colour ; middle of the 

 chin and throat white ; the under tail coverts the same ; tail longish, 

 even at the end, the feathers brown ; legs brownish yellow. 



A specimen of this is in the collection of Lord Stanley ; but without 

 certainty of its native place. I have seen others in the collection of 

 Mr. Bullock. 



