TRINGILLA PALUSTRIS. 
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tlie month of March I observed them numerous in th® 
lower parts of Georgia, where, according to Mr Abboh 
they are only winter visitants. They frequent 1“® 
middle of fields more than hedges or thickets ; r'l'' 
along the ground like a lark, which they also rcsembj® 
in the great breadth of their wings : they are tinn 
birds ; and rarely approach the farm house. 
Their nest is built on the ground, in a grass or cloV® 
field, and formed of old withered leaves and dry grasS’ 
and lined with hair. The female lays four or five eg§* 
of a grayish white. On the first week in May, I fouw^ 
one of their nests with four young, from which 
cumstance I think it probable that they raise two ® 
more brood in the same season. 
This bird measures five inches and three qiiartei’S >' 
length, and ten inches and a half in extent ; the upP®J 
parts are cinereous brown, mottled with deep brown * 
black ; lesser wing-coverts, bright bay, greater, bla® V 
edged with very pale brown ; wings, dusky, edged w'* 
brown; the exterior primary, edged with white; 1?’’ 
subcuneiform, the outer feather white on the exter*® 
edge, and tipt with white, the next tipt and edged (®. 
half an inch with the same, the rest, dusky, edged W'* _ 
pale brown ; bill, dark brown above, paler belo" J 
round the eye is a naivow circle of white; upper p?^ 
of the breast yellowish white, thickly streaked u'* 
pointed spots of black that pass .along the sides ; be/ j 
and vent, white; legs and feet, flesh coloured; 
wing-feather from the body, nearly as long as the tip ® 
the wing when shut. . ^ 
I can perceive little or no difference between 
colours and markings of the male and female. 
163 . fjiingilza falitstris, wilson. — swamp sparbo"' 
WILSON, PLATE XXII. FIG. I. ADULT MALE. 
The history of this obscure and humble 
short and uninteresting. Unknown or overlooked j 
the naturalists of Europe, it is now for the first h®' 
