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a broad stripe of pale ash runs along the crown and hind 
head, bordered on each side by one of blackish brown; back, 
a yellowish brown olive, some of the feathers curiously edged 
with semicircles of white ; sides under the wings bulf, spotted 
with black; wing-coverts and tertials black, broadly edged 
with light reddish buff ; tail, cuneiform, short ; all the feathers 
sharp pointed; legs, a yellow clay colour; irides, hazel. 
I examined many of these birds, and found but little 
difference in the colour and markings of their plumage. 
Since writing the above, I have become convinced that the 
bird described by Mr Latham, under the name of Sharp- 
tailed Oriole, is the present species. Latham states, that his 
description and figure were taken from a specimen deposited 
in Mrs Blackburn’s collection, and that it came from New 
York. 
SAVANNAH FINCH FRINGILLA SAVANNA. 
Plate XXXIV. Fig. 4. Male.* 
Peale’s Museum , No. 6583. 
ZONOTRICHIA ? SA VANN A. — Jardine. 
Fringilla Savanna, JBonap. Synop. p. 108. 
This delicately marked Sparrow has been already taken 
notice of, in a preceding part of this work, where a figure of 
the female was introduced. The present figure 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. 
* The female is described in Vol. I. p. 342. 
