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with a stripe of black ; below this again is another of 
white passing over each eye, and deepening into 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 scarce 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. 
165 . FRINGILLA SAFANNA , WILSON. SAVANNAH SPARROW. 
WILSON, PLATE XXII. FIG. III. FEMALE. 
This new species is an inhabitant of the low countries 
on the Atlantic coast, from Savannah, where I first 
discovered it, to the state of New York, and is gene- 
rally resident in these places, though rarely found 
inland, or far from the sea-shore. I have since found 
these birds numerous on the sea-shore, in the State of 
New Jersey, particularly near Great Egg Harbour. A 
pair of them I presented to Mr Peale of this city, in 
whose noble collection they now occupy a place. 
The female of the Savannah sparrow is five inches 
and a half long, and eight and a half in extent ; the 
plumage of the back is mottled with black, bright bay, 
and whitish ; chin, white ; breast, marked with pointed 
spots of black, edged with bay, running in chains from 
each base of the lower mandible ; sides, touched with 
long streaks of the same ; temples, marked with a 
spot of delicate yellow ; ear feathers, slightly tinged 
with the same ; belly, white, and a little streaked ; 
inside of the shoulders, and lining of the wing, pale 
yellowish ; first and second rows of wing-coverts, tipt 
with whitish ; secondaries next the body, pointed and 
very black, edged also with bay ; tail, slightly forked, 
and without any white feathers ; legs, pale flesh colour ; 
hind claw, pretty long. 
