FOX-COLOURED SPARROW. 



341 



orange yellow between that and the nostril ; this is again 

 bordered by a stripe of black proceeding from the hind part of 

 the eye ; breast, ash ; chin, belly, and vent, white ; tail, some- 

 what wedged ; legs, flesh coloured ; bill, a bluish horn colour; 

 eye, hazel. In the female, the white stripe on the crown is a 

 light drab ; the breast not so dark ; the chin less pure ; and 

 the line of yellow before the eye scarcely half as long as in 

 the male. All the parts that are white in the male are in 

 the female of a lijxht drab colour. 



FOX-COLOURED SPARROW. {Fringilla rufa.) 



PLATE XXII.— Fig. 4. 



Eusty Bunting, Arct. Zool. p. 364, No. 231, Ibid. 233.— Ferruginous Finch, Ibid. 

 375, No. 251. — Fringilla rufa, Bartram, p. 291.— PeaWs Museum, No. 6092. 



ZONOTRICHIA ILIACA.— SvfAixsox. 



Fringilla iliaca, Boiwp. Synop. p. 112. — Fringilla (zonotrichia) iliaca, North. Zool. 



ii. p. 257. 



This plump and pretty species arrives in Pennsylvania from 

 the north about the 20th of October ; frequents low, sheltered 

 thickets ; associates in little flocks of ten or twelve ; and is 

 almost continually scraping the ground and rustling among 

 the fallen leaves. I found this bird numerous in November 

 among the rich cultivated flats that border the river Con- 

 necticut ; and was informed that it leaves those places in spring. 

 I also found it in the northern parts of the State of Vermont. 

 Along the borders of the great reed and cypress swarnps 

 of Virginia and North and South Carolina, as well as around 

 the rice plantations, I observed this bird very frequently. 

 They also inhabit Newfoundland.* They are rather of a soli- 

 tary nature, seldom feeding in the open fields, but generally 

 under thickets, or among tall rank weeds on the edges of fields. 

 They sometimes associate with the snow bird, but more gene- 



* Pennant. 



