FOX-COLOURED SPARROW. 
341 
orange yellow between that and the nostril; this is again 
bordered by a stripe of black proceeding from the hind part of 
the eye ; breast, ash ; chin, belly, and vent, white ; tail, 
somewhat wedged ; legs, flesh coloured ; bill, a bluish horn 
colour ; eye, hazel. In the female, the white stripe on the 
crown is a light drab ; the breast not so dark ; the chin less 
pure ; and the line of yellow before the eye scarcely half as long 
as in the male. All the parts that are white in the male are 
in the female of a light drab colour. 
FOX-COLOURED SPARROW. — FRINGILLA RUFA. 
Plate XXII. Fig. 4. 
Rusty Bunting, Arct. Zool. p. 364. No. 231. Ibid. 233 Ferruginous Finch, Ibid. 
375, No. 251 Fringilla rufa, JBartram , p. 291 Peak's Museum, No. 6092. 
ZONOTRICHIA ILIAC A. — Swainson. 
Fringilla iliaca, Bonap. Sy?iop. p. 112 Fringilla (zonotrichia) iliaca, North. Zool. 
ii. p. 257. 
This plump and pretty species arrives in Pennsylvania 
from the north about the 20th of October; frequents low, 
sheltered thickets ; associates in little flocks of ten or twelve ; 
and is almost continually scraping the ground, and rustling 
among the fallen leaves. I found this bird numerous in 
November among the rich cultivated flats that border the 
river Connecticut ; and was informed that it leaves those places 
in spring. I also found it in the northern parts of the state 
of Vermont. Along the borders of the great reed and cypress 
swamps of Virginia, and North and South Carolina, as well as 
around the rice plantations, I observed this bird very fre- 
quently. They also inhabit Newfoundland. * They are 
rather of a solitary nature, seldom feeding in the open fields, 
but generally under thickets, or among tall rank weeds on the 
edges of fields. They sometimes associate with the Snow 
* Pennant. 
