SEA-SIDE FINCH. 
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circles of white. Wing-coverts and tertials brown-black, broadly 
edged with pale rufous. Tail short, wedge-shaped, all the feathers 
sharply pointed. Chin whitish ; breast yellowish-white, with point- 
ed dark spots ; belly white ; vent and rump dark buff ; the former 
spotted with dusky. From the base of the upper mandible a broad 
stripe of cinereous extends over the crown to the hind-head, bordered 
on either side by one of dusky-brown. Bill dusky. Legs pale 
brownish-yellow. Iris hazel. 
f SHARP-TAILED FINCH. 
Y {Fringilla caudacuta, Lath. Index Ornith.i. p. 459. No. 85.) 
Sp. Charact. — Varied with brown and pale rufous, throat of the 
latter color and a line of the same over the eyes ; neck behind 
darkish rufous ; tail even, the feathers sharp-pointed ; bill and 
legs pale. 
This species, described by Latham as coming from 
Georgia, known also by the name of Spotted Grey Spar- 
row, appears to possess the same lowly habits as the two 
preceding species, living chiefly among the grassy herb- 
age, and probably near the coast. It has yet, however, 
escaped all our ornithologists. Our Sparrows do not 
change their plumage so much at any period, as to give 
any probability to the opinion, that this bird may be a 
variety of the preceding. Besides, the length of this indi- 
vidual, only 4^ inches, is incompatible with the size of 
the Shore Finch. With much doubt it is quoted by 
Prince Bonaparte as a synonyme for Fringilla savana- 
rnm ; the feathers of the tail, however, in this species, 
are scarcely at all pointed. 
SEA-SIDE FINCH. 
4 ( Fringilla maritima, Wilson, iv. p. 68. pi. 34. fig. 2. Audubon, pi. 
93. Orn. i. p. 470.) 
Sp. Charact. — Stripe over the eye and edge of the shoulder yel- 
low ; breast cinereous ; belly white ; vent buff, spotted with dus- 
ky ; tail rounded ; bill rather stout and long. 
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