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NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 









Dimensions. 













Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin. 



Inch. 



Lin. 



Length total 



. 7 







Length of bill above . 



. 



4f Length of middle claw 



. 



2| 



„ of tail 



3 



1 



„ of tarsus . . 







11 „ of hind toe 







4 



,, of folded wing 



. 3 



1 



„ of middle toe . 



. 



7j „ of its claw 



. 



3* 



„ of bill from rictus 







5* 













[72.] 3. Fringilla (Zonotrichia) Pennsylvanica. (Swainson.) The 



White-throated Finch. 



Genus, Fringilla, Linn. Sub-genus, Zonotrichia, Swains. 

 White-throated Sparrow {Passer gutture albo). Edwards, pi. 304. 

 Le Moineau de Pennsylvanie. Briss. Orn. Append., p. 97- 

 White-throated Finch. Penn. Arct. Zool., ii., p. 373, No. 248. 

 White-throated Sparrow (Fringilla albicollis). Wils. iii., p. 51, pi. 5, f. 2. 

 Fringiila Pennsylvanica. Bonap. Syn., p. 108, No. 269. 

 Oochae-chimmenaw-kawmawkaw-seesh. Cree Indians. 



This handsome species winters in the southern parts of the United States, 

 frequenting- in flocks the borders of swampy thickets, and feeding on seeds. 

 It departs for the north about the 20th of April, reaches the Saskatchewan in 

 the middle of May, and spreads throughout the fur-countries, up to the sixty-sixth 

 parallel, to breed. I found a female sitting on seven eggs, on the 4th of June, 

 at Cumberland House. The nest, placed under a fallen tree, was built of grass, 

 lined with deer's hair and a few feathers. Another, found at Great Bear Lake, 

 was lined with the setai of Bryum idiginosum. The eggs were very pale 

 mountain-green, thickly marbled with reddish-brown. When the female was 

 disturbed, she made her escape by running silently off in a crouching manner, 

 like a Lark. The male has a clear song of two or three very distinct notes, 

 but without variety. 



DESCRIPTION 

 Of a male, killed at Cumberland House, June 1, 1827- 



Colour. — Crown of the head blackish-brown, with a central white line. A broad super- 

 ciliary streak is lemon-yellow from the nostrils to the eye, and white posteriorly. The nape 



