Plate CXCIII. Male and Female.
Bill shorter and more slender. Upper parts yellowish, streaked with
brownish-black: on the head a thin greyish-blue longitudinal band;
quills dusky brown, margined with yellowish-brown; tail-feathers
broadly margined with yellowish-brown; cheeks greyish-brown, with an
inferior band of ochreous; throat white, streaked with dusky, and
having a line of dusky spots on each side; fore part of breast and
sides pale greyish-yellow, streaked with dusky; the rest of the lower
parts greyish-white.
_Male_, 5-3/4, 8-2/12.
New York and Labrador. Rather rare. Migratory.
Lincoln's Finch, Fringilla Lincolnii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii.
p. 539.
GENUS VII. LINARIA, Ray. LINNET.
Bill short, conical, moderately stout, higher than broad at the base,
compressed toward the end, acuminate; upper mandible with the dorsal
line straight, the nasal sinus very short and broad, the ridge
distinct and narrow, the sides convex, the edges ascending at first,
afterwards direct, the tip very narrow, without notches; lower
mandible with the angle short and semicircular, the dorsal line
straight or very slightly concave, the sides convex, the tip
acuminate. Nostrils basal, roundish, concealed by the feathers. Head
of moderate size, roundish; neck short; body moderate. Feet of
moderate length; tarsus short, compressed, with seven scutella; toes
rather stout, the first large. Claws long, moderately arched, much
compressed, very acute. Plumage soft and blended. Wings rather long,
the first three quills nearly equal, the second generally longest, the
first longer than the third. Tail rather long, deeply emarginate or
forked, with the feathers pointed. Roof of upper mandible concave,
with two ridges; tongue deeper than broad, concave above toward the
point, which is acute; œsophagus enlarged about the middle; stomach
roundish, muscular; intestine of moderate length, slender; cœca
very small.