FIELD BUNTING. 
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Field Sparrow, Fringilla pusilla, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 121. 
Fringilla pusilla, Bonap. Syn., p. 110. 
Field or Rush Sparrow, Fringilla j uncorum, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 499. 
Field Sparrow, Fringilla pusilla, Aud. Orn. Biog\, vol. ii. p. 229. 
Adult Male. 
Bill short, rather small, strong, conical, acute ; upper mandible rather 
narrower than the lower, very slightly declinate at the tip, rounded on the 
sides, as is the lower, which has the edges inflected and acute ; the gap-line 
very slightly arched, slightly deflected at the base. Nostrils basal, roundish, 
partially concealed by the feathers. The general form rather robust. Legs 
of moderate length, slender ; tarsus longer than the middle toe, covered 
anteriorly with a few longish scutella : toes scutellate above, free, the lateral 
ones nearly equal ; claws slender, slightly arched, that of the hind toe scarcely 
larger, much compressed, acute. 
Plumage soft, blended, rather compact on the back ; wings shortish, curved, 
rounded, the third quill longest, the second and fourth scarcely shorter ; tail 
long, emarginate. 
Bill reddish-brown or cinnamon colour. Iris chestnut. Feet pale yel- 
lowish-brown. Upper part of the head chestnut ; anterior portion of the 
back and scapulars of the same tint, but marked with blackish-brown spots, 
the middle part of each feather being of that colour ; sides of the neck pale 
bluish-grey, and a line of the same over the eye ; rump and tail yellowish- 
grey, the inner webs of the latter light-brown ; quills and coverts blackish- 
brown, margined with whitish, the two rows of coverts slightly tipped with 
brownish-white ; the under parts are greyish-white ; the sides of the neck 
and fore part of the breast tinged with chestnut. 
Length 6 inches, extent of wings 8 ; bill along the back i, along the 
edge ft- 
The female is rather less, and somewhat duller beneath, but in other 
respects is precisely similar. 
Calopogon pulchellus, Brown. — Cvmbidium pulchellum, Willd ., Sp. PL, vol. 
iv. p. 105. Pursch , FI. Amer. Sept., vol. ii. p. 592. — Gvnandria Monandria, 
Linn. — Orciiide.e, Puss. 
Root tuberous, of an oblong form ; radical leaves linear-lanceolate, nerved ; 
scape few-flowered ; lip at the back clawed, the inside bearded ; five distinct 
petals of a light purplish-red. It grows in sandy soils from Maine to the 
Floridas ; I have not observed it in the more Southern or Western States, 
