SPECIES 13. FRINGILL^ SAPANNJl. 
SAVANNAH FINCH. 
[Plate XXXIV.— Fig. 4, Ma/e.] 
Peale’s Museum, JSTo. 6583. 
The figure of this delicately marked Sparrow was drawn 
from a very beautiful male, and is a faithful representation of 
the original. 
The length is five and a half inches, extent eight and a half; 
bill pale brown; eyebrows Naples yellow; breast and whole 
lower parts pure white, the former marked with small pointed 
spots of brown; upper parts a pale whitish drab, mottled with 
reddish brown; wing-coverts edged and tipt with white; tertials 
black, edged with white and bay; legs pale clay; ear feathers 
tinged with Naples yellow. The female and young males are 
less and much darker. 
This is probably the most timid of all our Sparrows. In win- 
ter it frequents the sea shores; but as spring approaches migrates 
to the interioi', as I have lately discovered, building its nest in 
the grass nearly in the same form, though with fewer materials, 
as that of the Bay-winged Bunting. On the twenty-third of 
May I found one of these at the root of a clump of rushes in a 
grass field, with three young, nearly ready to fly. The female 
counterfeited lameness, spreading her wings and tail, and using 
many afiectionate stratagems to allure me from the place. The 
eggs I have never seen. 
