LONG-TAILED SPARROW. 
We shall subjoin BufFon's entire account 
of his Speckled Widow, in proof of what we 
have advanced, though it can afford no addi- 
tional information. 
" All the upper part is speckled with black, 
on an orange ground. The quills of the 
wing, and it's great coverts, are black, edged 
with orange. The breast is of a lighter 
orange, without speckles. The small coverts 
of the wing are white ; and form a broad 
transverse bar of that colour, which predo- 
minates in all the lower part of the body. 
The bill is of a lively red: the legs are flesh- 
coloured. 
** The four iong feathers are of a deep 
black : they constitute no part of the true 
tail, as might be supposed; but form a sort of 
false tail, which leans on the first. These 
long feathers are cast in moulting, but quickly 
replaced; which is common in most birds, 
though rather unusual in the Widows. When 
these feathers have acquired their full length, 
the two middle ones project five inches and a 
half beyond the lower tail, and the two others 
an 
