Plate XCIII. Male and Female.
Third and fourth quills longest, first and eighth equal; tail
graduated; upper parts brownish-grey, tinged with olivaceous, two
faint longitudinal bands of darker on the head; the feathers on the
fore part of the back brown in the centre; margin of the wing at the
flexure light yellow, smaller wing-coverts and outer webs of secondary
coverts dull reddish-brown; quills and tail-feathers dusky brown,
edged with pale brownish-grey; a yellow band from the base of the
upper mandible over the eye, fainter behind; throat greyish-white,
with a longitudinal bluish-grey band on each side; lower part of neck,
fore part of breast, and sides, light bluish-grey, streaked with light
olivaceous-brown; middle of breast pale grey, abdomen white, lower
tail-coverts pale yellowish-brown, with a central dusky streak.
_Male_, 8, 11.
From Texas to Massachusetts along the shores of the Atlantic. Resident
in the Southern States. Abundant.
Sea-side Finch, Fringilla maritima, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p.
68.
Fringilla maritima, Bonap. Syn. p. 110.
Sea-side Finch, Fringilla maritima, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 505.
Sea-side Finch, Fringilla maritima, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p.
471.