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BACHMAN’S PINEWOOD-FINCH. 
and can be heard at a considerable distance in the pine woods, where it is 
found, and where it is the only songster at that season. 
“ In the beginning of November, this bird usually disappears, and I think 
it probably migrates farther south. Still it is likely that it does not go 
beyond the limits of the United States, and that some few remain in Caro- 
lina during the whole winter, as, on the 6th of February, the coldest time 
of the year, I found one of these birds in some long grass, a few miles from 
Charleston.” 
Since then, kind reader, I have had the pleasure, in the company of its 
amiable discoverer, to hear the melodious notes of this southern species. 
Our endeavours, however, to find its nest have been unsuccessful. 
On my return from the Floridas to New York, in June 1832, 1 travelled 
through both the Carolinas, and observed many of these Finches on the sides 
’ of the roads cut through the pine woods of South Carolina. At this time, 
they filled the air with their melodies. I traced them as far as the bound- 
ary between that State and North Carolina, in which none were seen or 
heard. They were particularly abundant near the Great Santee river. 
The food of this species consists of the seeds of grasses, coleopterous 
insects, and a variety of the small berries so abundant in that part of the 
country. Its flight is swift and direct, now and then protracted, so that 
the bird is out of sight before- it alights. 
I observed no difference in the size or colour of the sexes, and have 
represented a male in full summer dress, which was presented to me, while 
yet quite fresh, by my friend Bachman. 
Georgia and South Carolina. Rather rare. Migratory. 
Bachman’s Finch, Fringilla Bachmanii, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 366. 
Adult Male. 
Bill short, conical, acute ; upper mandible almost straight in its dorsal out- 
line, rounded on the sides ; lower mandible slightly convex beneath, the 
sides rounded ; edges of both sharp and inflected ; gap-line deflected at the 
base. Nostrils basal, roundish, partially concealed by the feathers. Head 
rather large, neck short, body rather full. Feet of moderate length, slender ; 
tarsus covered anteriorly with a few longish scutella ; toes free, scutellate 
above, the lateral ones nearly equal, hind-toe proportionally large ; claws 
slender, compressed, acute, slightly arched, that of the hind-toe longer. 
Plumage soft, blended, rather compact on the back, slightly glossed. 
Wings shortish, curved, third and fourth quills longest, fifth and second 
nearly equal ; the secondaries long and rounded. Tail long, graduated, and 
