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FEINGILLA LEUCOPHRYS. 
161 . FBINGII.LA LEUCOFSBYS, TEMJUNCIC. 
EltBEBIZA LEECOFUBYS, WILSOS. WHITE-CROWNED BDNIIF<'' 
WILSON, PLATE AXXI. ElG. IV. 
Tins beautifully marked species is one of the 
of its tribe in the United States, being cbieily confiD*’j 
to the northern district.s, or higher interior parts ^ 
the country, except in severe winters, when some w' ^ 
wanderers appear in the lower jiarts of the State ® 
Pennsylvania. Of three specimens of this bird, t. 
only ones I have yet met with, the first was caught > 
a trap near the city of New York, and lived with ** 
several months. It bad no song, and, as I afterwar 
discovered, w'as a female. Another, a male, was 
sented to me by Mr Michael of Lancaster, Peiin*'.'^^ 
vania. The third, a male, and in complete pluniaf j. 
was shot in the Great Pine Swamp, in the month 
May. It appeared to me to be unsuspicious, 
and solitary ; flitting in short flights among the 
wood and piles of prostrate trees, torn up by a torna® .j 
that some years ago passed through the sn anip. ■'U 
my endeavours to discover the female or nest 
unsuccessful. 
From the great scarcity of this species, our acqna'^, 
tance with its manners is but very limited. Th®^ 
persons n ho have resided near Hudson’s Baji, I'h®^ 
it is common, inform us, that it makes its nest in 
at the bottom of willows, and lays four chocph' 
coloured eggs. Its flight is said to be short and sile® ’ 
but, when it perches, it sings very melodiously.* j 
The white-crowned bunting is seven inches longi® , 
ten inches in extent; the bill, a cinnamon hr®'’, 
crown, from the front to the hind head, pure " 
bounded on each side by a stripe of black prof®®! 
from each nostril; and these again are bordered 
a stripe of jiure white passing over each eye ,c 
hind head, n here thej' meet ; below this, another nait® 
* Arctic Zoology. 
