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SHARP-TAILED FINCH. 
quarter in extent ; chin pure white, bordered on each side by a stripe 
of dark ash, proceeding from each base of the lower mandible, above 
that is another slight streak of white ; from the nostril over the eye 
extends another streak which immediately over the lores is rich yellow, 
bordered above with white, and ending in yellow olive ; crown brownish 
olive, divided laterally by a stripe of slate blue, or fine light ash ; breast 
ash, streaked with buff ; belly white ; vent buff-colored, and streaked 
with black ; upper parts of the back, wings and tail a yellowish brown 
olive, intermixed with very pale blue ; greater and lesser coverts tipped 
with dull white ; edge of the bend of the wing rich yellow ; primaries 
edged with the same immediately below their coverts ; tail cuneiform, 
olive brown, centered with black ; bill dusky above, pale blue below, 
longer than is usual with Finches ; legs and feet a pale bluish white ; 
irides hazel. Male and female nearly alike in color. 
Species XII. FRINGILLA CAUD ACUTA. 
SHARP-TAILED FINCH. 
[Plate XXXIV. Fig. 3 ] 
Sharp-tailed Oriole, Lath. Gen. Syn. n., p. 448, pi. XVII. 
A bird of this denomination is described by Turton, Syst. p. 562, 
but which by no means agrees with the present. This, however, may 
be the fault of the describer, as it is said to be a bird of Georgia ; un- 
willing, therefore, to multiply names unnecessarily, I have adopted his 
appellation. In some future part of the work I shall settle this matter 
with more precision. 
This new (as I apprehend it) and beautiful species as an associate of 
the former, inhabits the same places, lives on the same food ; and resem- 
bles it so much in manners, that but for their dissimilarity in some 
essential particulars, I would be disposed to consider them as the same 
in a different state of plumage. They are much less numerous than the 
preceding, and do not run with equal celerity. 
The Sharp-tailed Finch is five inches and a quarter long, and seven 
inches and a quarter in extent ; bill dusky ; auriculars ash ; from the 
bill over the eye, and also below it, run two broad stripes of brownish 
orange ; chin whitish ; breast pale buff, marked with small pointed spots 
of black ; belly white ; vent reddish buff ; from the base of the upper 
mandible a broad stripe of pale ash runs along the crown and hind head, 
bordered on each side by one of blackish brown ; back a yellowish brown 
