FRINGILLA SAVANNA. 
SAVANNAH SPARROW. 
[Plate XXII. Fig. 3, Female.] 
Tins 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, though 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 was so much 
its superior in beauty of markings and in general colors. With the 
representation of the male are given particulars of their nest, eggs, and 
manners. I have found these birds numerous on the sea shore, in the 
state of New Jersey, particularly near Great Egg Harbor. 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 tipped with whitish ; secondaries next the body 
pointed and very black, edged also with bay ; tail slightly forked, and 
without any white feathers ; legs pale flesh color ; hind claw pretty long. 
The very slight distinctions of color which nature has drawn between 
many distinct species of this family of Finches, render these minute 
and tedious descriptions absolutely necessary, that the particular species 
may be precisely discriminated. 
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