FRINGILLIDiE. 



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is slightly mottled with brownish-white. The feathers of the upper part of the neck, and middle 

 of the back, and the scapulars, have dark liver-brown centres, which gradually pass first into 

 chestnut-brown, and then into pale wood-brown margins, the chestnut-brown predominating. 

 The rump and tail coverts are broccoli-brown, without edgings. AVing coverts liver-brown, 

 margined with grey, the two lower rows tipped with two white bands. Primaries clove- 

 brown, edged with grey ; secondaries and tail feathers liver-brown. Under surface. — Chin, 

 middle of the belly, and vent white; throat and breast ash-grey; flanks and inner wing coverts 

 brownish-grey. Bill dark horn-colour. Legs flesh-coloured. 



Form. — Wings an inch and a half shorter than the tail; fourth quill the longest, but 

 scarcely passing the third and fifth ; eighth equal to the first, which is five lines shorter than 

 the fourth. Tail rather long, and rounded at the end. Hind nail very little longer than 

 the middle one. 



The female resembles the male in plumage. 



Length, total 

 „ of tail 

 ,, of folded wing 

 ,, of bill from rictus 



Inch. 

 . 6 



3 

 . 2 







Lin. 



6 

 

 9 



Dimensions 

 Of the male. 



Length of bill above , 

 „ of tarsus . 

 ,, of middle toe . 



Inch. 

 . 

 

 . 



Lin. 



6 



10i 



7A 



Length of middle claw 

 „ of hind toe . 

 „ of its claw . 



Inch. Lin. 



2£ 



. 4 



3 



[73.] 4. Fringilla (Zonotrichia?) iliaca. (Swains.) Fox-coloured Finch. 



Sub-family, Fringillinae, Swains. Genus, Fringilla, Linn. Sub-genus, Zonotrichia ? Sw. 



Fringilla iliaca. Merrem, Ic. Av., p. 37, t. 10. 



Rusty Bunting. Penn. Arct. Zool., ii., p. 364, No. 231 ? 



Ferruginous Finch. Idem, p. 375, No. 251 ? magnitudine descrepat. 



Fox-coloured Sparrow (Fring. rufa et femiginea). Wilson, iii., p. 53, pi. 22, f. 4. 



Fringilla iliaca. Bonap. Syn. t p. 112, No. 185. 



This handsome species breeds in the woody districts of the fur-countries, up to 

 the sixty-eighth parallel of latitude. It constructs its nest in a low bush, of dry 

 grass, hair, and feathers; laying five eggs, of a pale mountain-green tint, marbled 

 with irregular brown spots. The male, perched near his mate, sings cheerfully and 



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