YELLOW-WINGED SPARROW. 
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head, neck, and upper parts of the breast, body, and 
"’iujis, are of a deep slate colour ; tbe plumage some- 
times skirted with brown, which is the colour of the 
youno- birds ; the lower parts of the breast, the whole 
^■Uy^and vent, are pure white ; the three secondary 
^lill feathers next the body, arc edged with brown, the 
primaries with white; tbe tail is dusky slate, a little 
*orked, the two e.xterior feathers wholly white, which 
®re flirted out as it flies, and appear then very promi- 
tbe bill and legs are of a reddish flesh colour; 
the eye, bluish black. The female differs from the 
**>ale, in bein"- considerably more brown. In the depth 
Winter the slate colour of the male becomes more 
^®ep, and' much purer, the brown disappearing nearly 
altogether. 
172 . FniNOJLLA rASSERJNAi WILSON. 
TELLOW -WINGED SPARROW. 
WILSON, PLATE XXIV. FIG. V. 
Tins sraiill species is now for the first time intro- 
Jaced to the notice of the public. I can, however, .say 
*ltlc towards illustrating its history, which, like that 
many individuals of the human race, would be but 
^ dull detail of humble obscurity. It inhabits tbe lower 
P^fts of New York and Pennsylvania ; is very numerous 
Staten Island, where I first observed it ; and occurs 
idso nlonir the sea coast of New Jersey. But, though 
breeds in each of these places, it does not remain in 
?’'y of them during the winter. It has a short, weak, 
’Dterrnpted chirrup, which it occasionally utters from 
fences and tops of low bushes. Its nest is fixed 
tbe ground among the grass ; is formed of loose dry 
t'^s, and lined with hair and fibrous roots of plants, 
fbe eggs are five, of a grayish white sprinkled with 
mown. On the 1st of August I found the female 
Sitting. 
, P cannot say what extent of range this specif has, 
never met with it in the southern States ; though 
