28.
AFRICAN W.
D escription..
Place.
29.
NEW YORK W.
D escription.
We have a proof of this Ipecies remaining with us the whole
year, as feveral were fhot laft winter on'a common near fVandJ-
viorth, in Surrey, and are now. in the Leverian Mufeum.
La Fauvette- tachetee du Cap de Bonne Elperance, Brif. orn. iii. p. 390«
N° 10.. pi. 22.. f. z.r—Buf, oif. v. p..i6a..
g I Z E of the Mountain Finch: length feven inches and a quar-
ter. Bill horn-colour: crown of the headJ rufous, dafhed
with blackiih : hind part of the neck, the back, and Icapulars,.
black, edged with rufous grey : the lower part of the back, rump,
and upper tail coverts, the fame, but the margins more rufous r-
under parts, dirty rufous white in fome birds dafhed with black
on the fides : on each fide of the throat a longitudinal ftreak of
black : quills brown, fringed with rufous : tail loofely webbed,,
and fomewhat cuneiform; the four middle feathers, brown, with;
rufous margins; the four outer ones,., on each fide, rufous o u t wardly,
and brown down the lhafts: legs grey brown..
Inhabits.the Cape efGood Hope,-.
LaFauvette tachetee de la Louifiane, Buf. C’.f. v. p. 161.— Pl.cn!. 752. 1..
g I Z E of the Tit-lark 1 length five inches- and three quarters».
Bill black, and rather bent towards the tip : all : the- uppen
parts, from head- to tail, are cinereous and deep brown mixed:
over the eye, from the noftrils, a ftreak of white :: the under parts
yellowilh, ftreaked with black; the ftreaks broadeft on the fides-
and break, nearly refembling the Tit--lark : the legs pale reddilh
brown»
Round
F oun d.in Louifiam;. alfo met with.in the hedges about New
Fork. Never feen in flocks.
Fauvette ombrée de la Louifiane,. Buf. oif, v. 162.'
Fauvette tachetée de la Louifiane, PI. enl. 709. 1.
Ç I Z E of the laft : length about five inches and a half. Bill
^ more fl'ender, and'black: upper parts greyilh brown : on the
back obfcurelv marked with black: fides and rump tinged with
yellowilh.: wing coverts, upper tail coverts; and tail, dulky,
edged with white: greater quills dulky: the under-parts-are.
white, fparingly marked with fmall black fpots : legs dulky.
Inhabits Louifiàna, with the laft.
Buffon..feems to think they are allied ; but they differ exceed^
ingly in the ftrength and'fize of the bill, as above remarked ;
too much to admit of a bare pofiibility of any relationlhip *.
30.
UMBROSE W.
D escription*
Place* i
La Melange grife dd la Caroline, Krif'orn. Hi.' p. $6%. Ns 10.
______ a gorge jaune, Buf. oif. v. p. 454*
Yellow-throated Creeper, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 62.—Aril. Zoot.
31,
YELLOW--
THROATED W.
K l
C l ' Z E of a Goldfinch: - length five inches and a quarter. The Descri.
P bill half an-inch-long,, and black: forehead black :. on each
fide of the bafe of the bill a fpot of yellow :. throat and fore part
of the neck bright yellow, bounded on each fide of the neck by a.
band of black,. which begins at the corner of the mouth, and
*“ In the PI. enl. the crown is of a.pale .yellow.
paffes-»