PRINGTLLA ARBOKEA, 
252 
with black, drab, and brijrht bay, the latter 
genei'ally centred with the former; rump, dark drah 
or cinereous ; wings, dusky black, the primaries edg^" 
witli whitish, the secondaries border<!d with bright baf ’ 
greater wing-coverts, black, edged and broadly tipt 
brownish white ; tail, dusky black, edged with cl*’; 
colour : male and female nearly alike in plumage ; tb^ 
chestnut on the crown of the male rather brighter. 
168. FitrxaiLLJ ashojiej, wilson. 
FRI:^GILLA CAXADENStSf LATHAM TREE SPARROM'* 
WILSON, PLATE XVI. FIO, III. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This sparrow is a native of the north, who takes 
his winter quarters in Peunsylvani.a, and most of 1 , 
northern States, as ivell as several of the southern 0 <>^'j 
lie arrives here about the beginning of November, 
leaves us again early in April ; associates, in llocb* 
with the snow birds ; frequents sheltered hoUe" j 
thickets, and hedgerows, near springs of water; ' 
has a low warbling note, scarcely audible at the distau*-' 
of twenty or thirty yards. If disturbed, takes to tre^ 
like the white-throated sparrow ; but, contrary to 
habit of most of the others, who are inclined rather 1® 
dive into thickets. Mr Edwards has erroneously rept', 
sented this as the female of the mountain sparrow ; 
that judicioiLs and e.vcellout naturalist, Mr Peniw**',’ 
has given a more correct account of it, and inform^ 
that it inhabits the country bordering on Hudson’s 
during summer ; comes to Severn settlement in ' 
advances farther north to breed ; and returns in autn>^ 
on its way southward. It also visits Neivfouudlaiid. 
By some of our own naturalists, this species has he*^ 
contounded with the chipping sparrow, which it 
much resembles, but is larger and handsomer, a'’‘^ 
never found with us in summer. The former 
for the south about the same time that the lut" 
* Arctic Zoology^ vol. ii, p. 373. 
