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SAVANNAH SPARROW. 
Bird, but more generally keep by themselves. Their manners 
very much resemble those of the Red-eyed Bunting (Plate X. 
fig. 4.) ; they are silent, tame, and unsuspicious. They have 
generally no other note while here than a shep, shep ; yet I 
suspect they have some song in the places where they breed ; 
for I once heard a single one, a little before the time they 
leave us, warble out a few very sweet low notes. 
The Fox-coloured Sparrow is six inches long, and nine and 
a quarter broad; the upper part of the head and neck is 
cinereous, edged with rust colour ; back, handsomely mottled 
with reddish brown, and cinereous ; wings and tail, bright 
ferruginous ; the primaries, dusky within and at the tips, the 
first and second row of coverts, tipt with white ; breast and 
belly, white ; the former, as well as the ear-feathers, marked 
with large blotches of bright bay, or reddish brown, and the 
beginning of the belly with little arrow-shaped spots of black ; 
the tail-coverts and tail are a bright fox colour ; the legs and 
feet, a dirty brownish white, or clay colour, and very strong ; 
the bill is strong, dusky above and yellow below ; iris of the 
eye, hazel. The chief difference in the female is, that the 
wings are not of so bright a bay, inclining more to a drab ; 
yet this is scarcely observable, unless by a comparison of the 
two together. They are generally very fat, live on grass 
seeds, eggs of insects, and gravel. 
SAVANNAH SPARROW. _ FRINGILLA SAVANNA. 
Plate XXII. Fig. 3. Female. * 
Peak's Museum , No. 6584. 
ZONOTR1CHIA SAVANNA. — Jardine. 
Fringilla Savanna, JBonap. S?jnop. p. 108. 
This new species is an inhabitant of the low countries on 
the Atlantic coast, from Savannah, where 1 first discovered it, 
* The Male is figured Vol. II. Plate XXXIV. 
