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FUINGILLA ILIACA. 
SUBGENUS III. — PNJJVGItlJ, VIEIUI.. 
178. FRINOILLA ILIACA, MOBEM. 
FMIXGILLA nUFA {fERRUOIXEa'), WILSON. 
FOX-COLOURED SPARROW. 
WILSON, PLATE XXII. FIG. IV. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM* 
Tuts plump and pretty species arrives in Penn*)|^ 
vania from the north about the 20th of October ; P 
quents loiv, sheltered thickets ; assoi-iates in little 
of ten or twelve ; and is almost continually scrapinjf ' , 
g-round, and rustling among the fallen leaves. I ^*** 1 . 1 , 
this bird numerous in November among the rich cul^ 
vated flats that border the river Connecticut ; and " 
informed that it leaves those places in spring. I 
found it in the northern parts of the State of Verffl® . 
Along the borders of the great reed and cypress 
of Virginia, and North and South Carolina, as ivcU 
around the rice plantation.s, I observed this bird 
frequently. They also inhabit Newfoundland.* . 
are rather of a solitary nature, seldom feeding in * ij 
open fields, hut generally under thickets, or among 
rank weeds on the edges of fields. They sometii® 
associate with the snow bird, but more generally 
by themselves. Their manners very much resc®^ 
those of the red-eyed, or towhe bunting ; they 
silent, tame, and unsuspicious. They have 
no other note wdiile here than a shep, shep ; yet I 
pect they have some song in the places where 
breed; for I once heard a single one, a little before j. 
time they leave us, warble out a few very sweet 
notes. -a 
The fox-coloured sparrow is six inches long. ' j 
nine and a quarter broad; the upper part of (jlt, 
and neck is cinereous, edged with rust colour; . 
handsomely mottled n ith reddish brown, and cinerc® 
* Pennant. 
