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bordered on each side by one of blackish brown ; back, a yel- 

 lowish brown olive, some of the feathers curiously edged with 

 semicircles of white; sides under the wings buff, spotted with 

 black ; wing-coverts and tertials black, broadly edged with 

 light reddish buff ; tail, cuneiform, short ; all the feathers 

 sharp pointed ; legs, a yellow clay colour ; hides, hazel. 



I examined many of these birds, and fouud but little dif- 

 ference in the colour and markings of their plumage. 



Since writing the above, I have become convinced that the 

 bird described by Mr Latham, under the name of sharp-tailed 

 oriole, is the present species. Latham states, that his descrip- 

 tion and figure were taken from a specimen deposited in Mrs 

 Blackburn's collection, and that it came from New York. 



SAVANNAH FINCH. {Fringilla Savanna.) 



PLATE XXXIV.— Fig. 4. Male.* 



Peale's Museum, No. 6583. 



ZONOTRICHIA ? SAVANNA.— Jardixe. 



Fringilla Savanna, Bonap. Synop. p. 10S. 



This delicately marked sparrow has been already taken notice 

 of, in a preceding part of this work, where a figure of the 

 female was introduced. The present figure was drawn from 

 a very beautiful male, and is a faithful representation of the 

 original. 



The length is five and a half inches ; extent, eight and a 

 halt; hill, pale brown; eyebrows, Naples yellow; breast and 

 whole lower parts, pure white, the former marked with small 

 pointed spots of brown ; upper parts, a pale whitish drab, 

 mottled with reddish brown ; wing-coverts, edged and tipt 

 with white ; tertials, black, edged with white and bay ; legs, 

 pale clay ; ear-feathers, tinged with Naples yellow. The 

 female and young males are less, and much darker. 



* The female is described in Vol. I. p. 342. 



