WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. 
We are indebted to Edwards for this bird : 
which, however, is one of the very few ob- 
ects not figured from nature by his own hand. 
The bird," he tells us, is taken from a 
aeat drawing in colours, done by Mr. William 
Bartram, of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania." 
It was represented, in the original drawing, 
of the natural size, which is considerably 
larger than our Common House Sparrow. 
( The description published by Edwards, of 
his bird, which is the Passer Pennsylvanica 
if Linnseus, is as follows— 
I " It has a thick, short bill, such as grani- 
l^orous birds generally have, of a blackish or 
Husky colour. From the corner of the mouth, 
through the eye, which is of a hazel-colour, 
masses a dusky line. Above the eye is an arch, of 
ill orange-colour near the bill, but which gra- 
lually becomes white on the hinder part of the 
lead. The throat, just beneath the bill, is white, 
where 
