GROUND ROBIN. 
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The Ferruginous Sparrow is about 6 inches long, and 9J in alar 
dimensions. Head and neck cinereous, the feathers margined with 
ferruginous. Wings and tail rust-color, inclined to reddish- 
brown; 1st and 2d rows of wing-coverts tipt with white. Legs and 
feet robust, brownish- white. Bill stout, dusky, the lower mandible 
yellowish. Irids hazel. 
GROUND ROBIN, or TOWWEE FINCH. 
(Fringilla er ythr ophthalmia, LiUf. Emberiza erythrophthalma , Wilson, 
ii. p. 35. pi. 10. fig. 5. Phil. Museum, No. 5970.) 
Sp. Charact. — Black ; belly white ; flanks and vent bay ; tail 
rounded, 4 outer feathers partly white ; a white spot on the wing 
below the coverts, and an interrupted white margin on the pri- 
maries; bill black. — Female, olive-brown where the male is 
