Plate LXIV. Male.
Bill shorter than in the other species; tail-feathers less acuminate;
upper part of head deep chestnut-red, streaked with black; hind part
and sides of the neck light bluish-grey, cheeks dusky brown; a
greyish-yellow streak over the eye; upper parts of body
yellowish-brown, streaked with brownish-black; wing-coverts and
secondaries broadly edged with yellowish-red, primaries with duller
red; tail similar; throat greyish-white, with two small dusky streaks,
the rest of the fore neck and part of the breast pale bluish-grey,
the abdomen whitish, the sides yellowish-brown, streaked with dusky.
_Male_, 5-1/2, 7-1/2.
From Texas to North Carolina in winter. Spreads in spring and summer
to the Missouri westward, and to Labrador eastward. Abundant.
Swamp Swallow, Fringilla palustris, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii.
p. 49.
Fringilla palustris, Bonap. Syn. p. 110.
Swamp Sparrow, Fringilla Georgiana, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 502.
Swamp Sparrow, Fringilla palustris, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p.
331; v. v. p. 508.
GENUS VI. PEUCÆA, Aud. PINEWOOD-FINCH.
Bill of moderate length, rather stout, straight, considerably
compressed, acute; upper mandible with the dorsal line somewhat
convex, the ridge rather narrow, the sides convex, the edges
inflected, with the notches obsolete, the tip acute; lower mandible
with the angle short and rounded, the dorsal line ascending and
slightly convex, the ridge rounded, the sides convex, the edges
involute, the tip acute. Nostrils small, roundish, partially concealed
by the plumage. Head ovate; neck short; body moderately stout. Tarsus
rather short, compressed, with seven scutella; toes moderate, very
slender, hind toe rather large, lateral toes about equal, outer
adherent at the base. Claws of moderate length, very slender,
extremely compressed, arched, tapering to a fine point. Plumage very
soft, blended. Wings very short, convex, rounded, the third and fourth
quills longest, the first and seventh about equal. Tail rather long,
graduated, of twelve narrow rounded feathers. No difference in the
colours of the sexes. Name from [Greek: Peuchê], a pine.