Plate CVIII. Male and Female.
Upper parts light red, claws long, hind toe and its claws of equal
length, tail lighter, the head and neck intermixed with light
bluish-grey; inner webs of quills brown, secondary coverts slightly
tipped with whitish; lower parts white, and, except the abdomen,
spotted with light red, the spots on the breast smaller and inclining
to black; a patch of dusky on its fore part, produced by the inner
webs of several of the feathers.
_Male_, 7-1/2, 10-1/2. _Female_, 7-1/2.
Dispersed in winter throughout the Southern and Western Districts.
Breeds from Nova Scotia to Labrador and the Fur Countries. Rather
common.
Fox-coloured Sparrow, Fringilla rufa, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii.
p. 53.
Fringilla iliaca, Bonap. Syn. p. 112.
Fringilla (Zonotrichia) iliaca, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer.
v. ii. p. 257.
Ferruginous Finch, Fringilla iliaca, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 514.
Fox-coloured Sparrow, Fringilla iliaca, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii.
p. 58; v. v. p. 512.