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dilated about the middle ; stomach roundish, muscular ; in- 
testine rather short ; coeca small. 
* Wings rather short, claws long, little arched. 
186. 1. Fringilla iliaca, Merrem. Fox-coloured Finch. 
Plate CVIII. Male and Female. 
Upper parts light red, claws long, hind toe and its claws of equal 
length, tail lighter, the head and neck intermixed with light bluish- 
grey ; inner webs of quills brown, secondary coverts slightly tipped 
with whitish ; lower parts white, and, except the abdomen, spotted 
with light red, the spots on the breast smaller and inclining to black ; 
a patch of dusky on its fore part, produced by the inner webs of seve- 
ral of the feathers. 
Male, 7h 10^. Female, 7h 
Dispersed in winter throughout the Southern and Western Districts. 
Breeds from Nova Scotia to Labrador and the Fur Countries. Rather 
common. 
Fox-coloured Sparrow, Fringilla rufa, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii. p. 53. 
Fringilla iliaca, Bonap. Syn. p. 112. 
Fringilla (Zonotrichia) iliaca, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 257. 
Ferruginous Finch, Fringilla iliaca, Ndtt. Man. v. i. p. 511. 
Fox-coloured Sparrow, Fringilla iliaca, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 58 ; v. v. !>. 512. 
187. 2. Fringilla Townsendi, Aud. Townsend’s Finch. 
Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 7. Female. 
Claws very long, hind toe much shorter than its claw ; upper parts 
very dark olivaceous-brown, with a slight tinge of red, which is more 
conspicuous on the rump and outer webs of the tail-feathers, and mar- 
gins of the wings and quills ; sides of the neck and body and feathers 
of legs similar, the rest white with dark brown triangular spots, lower 
tail-coverts brown, broadly margined with pale dull yellow. 
Female, 7, 10^. 
Colorado of the West. Rocky Mountains. 
Townsend’s Finch, Fringilla Townsendi, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 236. 
188. 3. Fringilla cinerea, Gmel. Brown Finch. 
Plate CCCXC. Fig. 4. Male. 
Hind claw and toe of equal length ; upper parts brownish-grey tinged 
with olivaceous, streaked with dark reddish-brown ; three longitudinal 
bands of bluish-grey on the head ; secondaries and their coverts broadly 
margined with dull chestnut ; tail-feathers with a fainter tint of the 
same ; on the cheek a whitish line, and beneath it a dusky brown 
band ; throat and fore part of the neck white, with longitudinal dark 
