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FAMILY XV.* — FRIN GILLINiE. FINCHES. 
Genus IX. f— FRIN GILL A, Linn. FINCH. 
HARRIS’ FINCH. 
Fringilla Harrisii, And. 
PLATE CCCCLXXXIV.— Male aitd Young. 
The discovery of this beautiful bird is due to my excellent and constant 
friend Edward Harris, Esq., who accompanied me on my late journey to 
the Upper Missouri river -5 &c., and after whom I have named it, as a 
memento of the grateful feelings I will always entertain towards one ever 
kind and generous to me. 
The first specimen seen, was procured May 4th, 1843, a short distance 
below the Black Snake Hills. I afterwards had the pleasure of seing another 
whilst the steamer Omega was fastened to the shore, and the crew engaged 
in cutting wood. This was on the west side of the river, at a place lately 
occupied by Indians engaged in making maple sugar. The country was 
hilly, the timber large, and- the abandoned camp of a party of Indians, 
proved to us that game was abundant in the neighbourhood, as we saw the 
remains of Deer, Wild Turkeys, and Pigeons strewed around the hut, where 
the pots and kettles of these sons of the forest had manufactured the sugar. 
As I was on the look-out for novelties, I soon espied one of these Finches, 
which, starting from the ground only a few feet from me, darted on, and 
passed through the low tangled brushwood too swiftly -for me to shoot on 
the wing. I saw it alight at a great distance, on the top of a high tree, and 
my several attempts to approach it, proved ineffectual ; it flew from one to 
another tree-top as I advanced, and at last rose in the air and disappeared. 
During our journey up the stream my friend Harris, however, shot two 
others, one of which proved a female, and another specimen was procured by 
Mr. J. G. Bell, who also was one of my party. Upon our return voyage, 
my friend Harris had the good fortune to shoot a young one, supposed to 
* See vol. iii. p. 49. f Ibid p. 138. 
