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United States. As to their returning home by “ the country 
beyond the mountains/’ this must, doubtless, be for the 
purpose of finishing the education of their striplings here, as 
is done in Europe, by making the grand tour. This, by the 
by, would be a much more convenient retrograde route for 
the Ducks and Geese ; as, like the Kentuckians, they could 
take advantage of the current of the Ohio and Mississippi, to 
float down to the southward. Unfortunately, however, for 
this pretty theory, all our vernal visitants with which I am 
acquainted, are contented to plod home by the same regions 
through which they advanced, not even excepting the Geese. 
YELLOW-WINGED SPARROW. — FRINGILLA PASSERINA. 
Plate XXIV. Fig. 5. 
Peale's Museum , No. 6585. 
EMBERIZA ? PASSERINA. — Jardine.* 
Fringilla (sub -genus Spiza) passerina, JBonap. Synop. p. 109. 
This small species is now for the first time introduced to 
the notice of the public. I can, however, say little towards 
illustrating its history, which, like that of many individuals of 
the human race, would be but a dull detail of humble obscurity. 
It inhabits the lower parts of New" York and Pennsylvania ; 
is very nurherous on Staten Island, where I first observed it ; 
and occurs also along the sea coast of New Jersey. But, 
though it breeds in each of these places, it does not remain 
in any of them during the winter. It has a short, weak, 
interrupted chirrup, which it occasionally utters from the 
* “ A few of these birds,” the Prince of Musignano remarks, “ can never be 
separated in any natural arrangement.” What are now placed under the name 
Emberiza, will require a sub-genus for themselves, perhaps the analogous form 
of that genus in the New World. In this species we have the palatial knob, 
and converging edges of the mandibles ; and, by Bonaparte, it is placed among 
the Finches, in the second section of his sub-genus Spiza , as forming the passage 
to the Buntings Ed. 
