FIELD SPARROW. 
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The female of this species, which is here faithfully repre- 
sented from a very beautiful living specimen, furnished by 
a particular friend, is eleven inches long, and twenty-three 
from tip to tip of the expanded wings. The cere and legs 
are yellow ; bill, blue, tipt with black ; space round the eye, 
greenish blue; iris, deep dusky; head, bluish ash; crown, 
rufous ; seven spots of black on a white ground surround the 
head, in the manner represented in the figure ; whole upper 
parts reddish bay, transversely streaked with black ; primary 
and secondary quills, black, spotted on their inner vanes with 
brownish white ; whole lower parts yellowish white, marked 
with longitudinal streaks of brown, except the chin, vent, and 
femoral feathers, which are white ; claws, black. 
The male of this species (which is an inch and a half 
shorter, has the shoulder of the wings blue, and also the black 
marks on the head, but is, in other respects, very differently 
marked from the female) will appear in an early part of the 
present work, with such other particulars as may be thought 
worthy of communicating.* 
FIELD SPARROW. f— FRINGILLA PUSILLA. 
Plate XVI. Fig. 2. 
Passer agrestis, Bartram, p. 291. — Peale's Museum, No. 6560. 
EMBERIZA PUSILLA. — Jardine, Sw. MSS. 
Fringilla pusilla, Bonap. Synop. p. 110. 
This is the smallest of all our Sparrows, and, in Pennsyl- 
vania, is generally migratory. It arrives early in April, 
frequents dry fields covered with long grass, builds a small 
* See description of male, and note, Vol. II. 
f The American Bunting Finches are most puzzling, the forms being con- 
stantly intermediate, and never assuming the true type. Mr Swainson has 
also felt this, and has been obliged to form a new genus, to contain one portion 
nearly inadmissible to any of the others. The present species will rank as 
allied nearest to the Reed Bunting of Europe, E. schoeniculus. Another, 
