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SHARP- TAILED FINCH. 
SHARP-TAILED FINCH FRINGILLA CAUDACUTA. 
Plate XXXIV. Fig. S. 
Sharp-tailed Oriole, Lath . Gen. Synop. ii. p. 448. pi. 17. — Peale's Museum , No. 
6442. 
AMMO DRAM US CA UDA C UTUS. — S wainson. * 
Ammodramus, Swain. Zool. Journ. No. ii. p. 348 Fringilla caudacuta, JBonap. 
Synop. p. 110. 
A bird of this denomination is described by Turton, Syst. 
p. 562, but which by no means agrees with the present. 
This, however, may be the fault of the describer, as it is said 
to be a bird of Georgia : unwilling, therefore, to multiply 
names unnecessarily, 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 is an 
associate 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; auri- 
culars, 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 
* Mr Audubon has figured a bird, very closely allied in plumage, under the 
title of Ammodramus Henslowii, and, in the letter-press, has described it as 
Henslow’s Bunting, Emberiza Henslowii. It will evidently come under the 
first genus, and if new and distinct, will form a third North American species. 
It is named after Professor Henslow of Cambridge, and was obtained near 
Cincinnati. There is no account of its history and habits. — Ed. 
