t’60 FRINGILLA CAUDACUTA. 
I have no doubt that it winters there, with many others 
of its tribe. It is tiie scarcest of all our sunun®*^ 
sparrows. Its food consists principally of grass seeds> 
and the larvse of insects, which it is almost continually 
in search of iunong the loose soil and on the surface' 
consequently it is more useful to the farmer than othef' 
wise. 
The length of this species is five inches, extent eijt^* 
inches ; upper part of the head, blackish, divided by * 
slight line of white; hind head and neck above, markc'* 
with short lateral touches of black and white ; a lijj* 
of yellow extends from above the eye to the nostril’ 
cheeks, plain brownish white ; back, streaked wit® 
black, brown, and pale ash ; shoulders of the win^ 
above and below, and lesser coverts, olive ycllo'’J 
greater wing-coverts, black, edged with pale a**’’ 
primaries, light drab ; tiiil, the same, the feathers rath®^ 
pointed at the ends, the outer ones white ; breast, p®*'® 
yellowish white, or pale ochre, which distinguish®^ 
it from the Savannah sparrow ; belly and vent, wbit®i 
three or four slight touches of dusky at the sides of t®® 
breast ; legs, flesh colour; bill, dusky above, pale blui*® 
white below. The male and female are nearly ali®* 
in colour. 
173. FRINGIZLA CAUDACUTAi WILSON. 
SHARP-TAILED SPARROW. 
WILSON, PLATE XXXIT. PIG. III. 
A BiKD of this denomination is described by 
Syst p. 562 ; but n hich by no means agrees with th® 
present. This, hmvever, may be the fault of the d®^ 
criber, as it is said to be a bird of Georgia ; unwill'®^ 
therefore, to multiply names unnecessarily, I 1“*' 
adoj'ted this appellation. 
This new (.gs I apprehend it) and beautiful sped®® ' 
an associate ot the sea-side finch, inhabits the same pla® 
lives on the same food, and resembles it so much 
manners, that, but for their dissimilarity in 
