SAVANNAH SPARROW. 



FRIjYGILLA SAVAJVJVA. 

 [Plate XXII.— Fig. ^.—Female.'] 



Pe ale's Museum^ No. 6584. 



THIS new species is an inhabitant of the low countries on the 

 Atlantic coast, from Savannah, where I first discovered it, to the 

 state of New York; and is generally resident in these places, tho 

 rarely found inland, or far from the sea shore. The drawing of 

 this bird was in the hands of the engraver before I was aware that 

 the male (a figure of which will appear in vol. IV,) was so much 

 its superior in beauty of markings and in general colors. With a 

 representation of the male will also be given particulars of their 

 nest, eggs, and manners, which, from the season, and the few spe- 

 cimens I had the opportunity of procuring, I was at that time un- 

 able to collect. I have since found these birds numerous on the 

 sea shore, in the state of New Jersey, particularly near Great Egg 

 harbour. A pair of these I presented to Mr. Peale of this city, 

 in whose noble collection they now occupy a place. 



The female of the Savannah Sparrow is five inches and a half 

 long, and eight and a half in extent; the plumage of the back is 

 mottled with black, bright bay and whitish; chin white; breast 

 marked with pointed spots of black, edged with bay, running in 

 chains from each base of the lower mandible; sides touched with 

 long streaks of the same; temples marked with a spot of delicate 

 yellow; ear feathers slightly tinged with the same; belly white, and 

 a little streaked ; inside of the shoulders and lining of the wing pale 

 yellowish; first and second rows of wing coverts tipt with whitish; 

 secondaries next the body pointed and very black, edged also with 



