Plate CCCLV. Male and Female.
Second, third, and fourth quills longest, first and seventh equal;
tail rounded. Upper parts dull olivaceous-grey, streaked with
blackish-brown, the central parts of all the feathers being of the
latter colour; margin of the wing at the flexure yellowish-white; all
the feathers of the wings dusky brown, margined with pale olivaceous;
tail-feathers blackish-brown, margined with olivaceous; a
yellowish-brown streak from the base of the upper mandible over the
eye; throat and fore neck greyish-white, with an indistinct dusky
streak on each side; breast and sides pale dull yellowish-grey marked
with brownish-black streaks; middle of the breast and abdomen
greyish-white, tinged with yellowish-brown; lower tail-coverts pale
yellowish-brown, with a central dusky streak.
_Male_, 5-1/2, 7-3/4.
Abundant in Texas and along the Gulf of Mexico. Rather rare in South
Carolina, from which it migrates in autumn.
Macgillivray's Finch, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 285; v. iv.
p. 394; v. v. p. 499.
174. 3. Ammodramus caudacutus, Lath. Buff-breasted
Shore-Finch.--Sharp-tailed Finch.
Plate CXLIX. Male and Female.
Second, third, and fourth quills longest, first and fifth equal; tail
graduated. Upper part of the head with a central bluish-grey streak,
deep brown at the sides with the feathers black in the centre; hind
neck dull grey, tinged with brown; back brown, tinged with grey, some
of the feathers marked with black and edged with greyish-white; quills
dusky brown, edged with reddish-brown, the secondary and smaller
coverts with their outer webs chiefly of the latter colour;
tail-feathers dusky brown, margined with greyish-olive; a broad band
of light yellowish-red from the base of the upper mandible over the
eye, and extending beyond the middle of the neck, where it is broader;
ear-coverts grey; a broad band of yellowish-red from the lower
mandible down the neck; throat whitish, with a line of dusky streaks
on each side; the lower part of the neck, a portion of the breast, the
lower tail-coverts, and the sides, pale yellowish-red, streaked with
dusky; the rest of the lower parts white.
_Male_, 5, 7-1/4.
Breeds from Texas along the coast to Massachusetts. Never in the
interior. Resident in the Southern States. Very abundant.
Sharp-tailed Finch, Fringilla caudacuta, Wils. Amer. Orn. v.
iv. p. 70.
Fringilla caudacuta, Bonap. Syn. p. 110.
Shore Finch, Fringilla littoralis, Nutt. Man, v. i. p. 504.
Sharp-tailed Finch, Fringilla caudacuta, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
ii. p. 281; v. v. p. 499.