SPECIES 12. FRINGILLA CAUD^CUT^. 
SHARP-TAILED FINCH. 
[Plate XXXIV.— Fig. 3.] 
Sharp-tailed Oriole, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii, p. 448, pi. XVII. — 
Phale’s Museum, JVo. 6442. 
A BIRD of this denomination is described byTurton, Syst. p. 
562, but which by no means agrees with the present. This how- 
ever, may be the fault of the describer, as it is said to be a bird 
of Georgia; unwilling, therefore, to multiply names unneces- 
sarily, I have adopted his appellation. In some future part of the 
work I shall settle this matter with more precision. 
This new (as I apprehend it) and beautiful species as an asso- 
ciate of the former, inhabits the same places, lives on the same 
food; and resembles it so much in manners, that but for their 
dissimilarity in some essential particulars, I would be disposed to 
consider them as the same in a different state of plumage. They 
are much less numerous than the preceding, and do not run 
with equal celerity. 
The Sharp-tailed Finch is five inches and a quarter long, 
and seven inches and a quarter in extent; bill dusky; auriculars 
ash; from the bill over the eye, and also below it, run two broad 
stripes of brownish orange; chin whitish; breast pale buff, marked 
with small pointed spots of black; belly white; vent reddish 
buff; from the base of the upper mandible a broad stripe of pale 
ash runs along the crown and hind head, bordered on each side 
by one of blackish brown; back a yellowish brown olive, some 
of the feathers curiously edged with semicircles of white; sides 
under the wings buff, spotted with black; wing coverts and ter- 
tials black, broadly edged with light reddish buff; tail cuneiform. 
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