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LARK FINCH. 
scapular region having a blackish brown disk ; the neck beneath 
and breast, are dull whitish cinereous ; a small blackish brown 
spot is on the middle of the breast ; the belly and vent are 
white. The wings are dusky brown ; the lesser wing-coverts 
are margined with dull cinereous ; the exterior primary is 
equal to the third ; both are very little shorter than the second, 
which is longest ; the outer webs of the second, third, and 
fourth primaries, being whitish near their bases, form a dis- 
tinct spot on the wing. The tail is rounded, the feathers being 
blackish brown ; the two intermediate ones are immaculate, 
somewhat paler than the others. The adjoining ones have a 
small white spot at tip, which, on the lateral feathers, in- 
creases in size, until, on the exterior one, it occupies half the 
total length of the feather ; whilst its exterior web is white to 
the base. 
The female is very similar to the male, but the colours are 
duller, and the stripes on the head are not so decided; the 
auriculars, moreover, are yellowish brown. 
This species has the bill and feet precisely similar to those 
of Wilson’s black-throated bunting, and those other Fringil- 
IcB^ and supposed FmherizcE^ of which I have constituted the 
sub-genus Sjnza^ in my Observations on Wilson’s Ornithology. It 
cannot be mistaken for any other species, being very peculiar 
in its markings and manners. 
CRIMSON-NECKED BULLFINCH PYRRHULA FRONTALIS. 
Plate VI. Fig. 1. Male; Fig. 2. Female. 
Fringilla frontalis, Say, in Long’s Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, ii. p. 40.—" 
Philadelphia Museum, No. 6276, male ; No. 6277, female. 
ER YTHR OSFIZA FR OXT^L/S— Bonaparte. 
Erytlirospiza, Ponap. Oss. suUa, 2d ediz. del Regn. Anim. Cuv. p. 80. —See note, 
vol. i. p. 121. 
Much confusion exists in the works of naturalists respect- 
ing those finches and bullfinches that are tinged with red ; 
