Plate XC. Male.
Second, third, and fourth quills longest, first and fourth nearly
equal; tail rather long, slightly emarginate. Upper parts light
greyish-brown, streaked with dusky; smaller wing coverts yellowish-red
or bay; quills and larger coverts dusky brown, margined with
greyish-white; two whitish bands on the wing, formed by the tips of
the first row of small coverts, and the secondary coverts; tail dusky
brown, the greater part of the outer feather, and the terminal portion
of the outer web of the next white; a narrow circle of white round the
eye; lower parts dull white, the throat, fore part of neck, and sides
streaked with dark brown.
_Male_, 5-3/4, 10.
From Texas to the Columbia River and Fur Countries. Breeds from
Maryland eastward and northward. Resident in winter from Carolina
southward and westward. Extremely abundant.
Bay-winged Bunting, Emberiza graminea, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv.
p. 51.
Fringilla graminea, Bonap. Syn. p. 108.
Fringilla (Zonotrichia) graminea, Bay-winged Finch, Swains. &
Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 254.
Bay-winged or Grass Finch, Fringilla graminea, Nutt. Man. v.
i. p 482.
Grass Finch or Bay-winged Bunting, Fringilla graminea, Aud.
Orn Biog. v. i. p. 473; v. v. p. 502.