Plate CCCXC. Fig. 1. Male.
Second and third quills longest, first and fourth about equal; tail
rather long, rounded. Male with three longitudinal bands of white on
the head, separated by two bands of bright chestnut-red, the anterior
part of which is black; upper parts light greyish-brown,
longitudinally streaked with dusky, the central part of each feather
being of the latter colour, the hind part of the back and the rump
without streaks; two faint bands of yellowish-white on the wings,
formed by the tips of the first row of small coverts, and those of the
secondary coverts, and a patch of the same formed by the bases of the
outer primaries; quills dusky brown, primaries margined with whitish,
secondaries more broadly with light red; tail darker, all the feathers
except the middle, terminated by white, which, on the outer, occupies
more than a third of its length, and extends nearly to the base of the
outer web; below the eye a white streak, cheeks bright chestnut, with
an anterior black spot, under them a broad white band from the lower
mandible, curving upwards, separated from the throat, which is white,
by a short line of black on each side; lower parts white, the lower
part of the neck greyish, the sides tinged with greyish-white. Female
similar to the male, but with the head simply coloured like the back,
and the sides streaked with brown.
_Male_, 6-1/2, 8-1/4.
Upper Missouri, and eastern declivities of the Rocky Mountains.
Common. Migratory.
Fringilla grammaca, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 47.
Lark Finch, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 480.
Lark Finch, Fringilla grammaca, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 17.