46 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER.
the feathers being dark bröwn, edged with olive-green on the outer,
and with white, on. the. inner wèbh .<
The Orange-crowned Warbler resembles several sjJ,|ciesKof indi-
genous and'foreign Warblfers; .and the females ofi. othergj sudh as that
of the Sylvia \trichas, mayfalfo be mistaken for it; but it'may be distinguished
from each of theup.tïe&pèctivëfy by particular characters,
Which it is not necessary to detail, äs the concealed orange spot of
the crown.is a peculiarity not possessed by f.either. *of rthe\;a]lied
species. The Nashville W a r b l e r rubricapillS) of Wilson,
seems to be more closely related.to the Orange-crowned Warbler
than any other. That bhcl'also, is evidently a Bacriis, and scarcely
differs from our»'species, .except in the white belly,»’the'light *ash
colour; of the head and neck, and deep. chestnutlcoldur>/dfspbkeld
in small touches.» on the crown, instead of an uniform Orange e©lou|£
< The figure given in our plate is that of a male; and' lheddh%
difference observable »between the sexes,is,»»that tëhe rump of the
male is of a brighter colour, approaching, in old birds,) to» a>»pui;fe
yellow.
During winter, the Orange-crowned W arbler ■ is- ofite >pf the^most
common birds imb t% neighbourhood of iSti Augustin, Florida,
almost iexclusively >,frequenting '.the orange trees; < Thehf »manners
rëseïublelythose oft, the kindred species, • though they have >al remarkable
habit of constantly inflecting the tail, like the Reweey ■ Thê
note consists of a chuck, and a, faint squeak, butt} little' louder' than
that of-a mouse.
47
LARE FINCH.
FRIjYGILLA GRRMMJFCR.
Plate V. Fig. 3i* h»
Fringilla grammaca, Sat, in Long?» Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, I, p. 139.
! , Philadelphia Museum, No5^®88l»j-t'£
For thisj’yeMj/interesting, new. species, Ornithology is again indebted
{tc&LjqnglS'- expedition, and particularly to; Say, who. gave it
.the name we have» adopted,) and informs us, in his. notes, that many
©fethese birds wereshoffc i|jg|$faelt mouth of June, at Bellefontaine, on
the.t^lisspuri; and others were qbsejsrai, the following springy at
Engineer;Cantonment, near Council Bluffy;
It seems probable tm® the range of this bird is limited, in a great
measure, ,by&1ihte Mississippi on'-thd east.,» Like the Larks, they frequent
the., prairies, and very seldom,, if ever, alight on, trees; they
sing sweetly, and often continue theiAiiotes while onr the,»wing, j .' •
The Lark Finch is^six*inches and tailKaJif long; its bill, a. little
notched at tip, is of a pale horn colour, with a- slight elevation on
the roof :of thejupper mandible. The feet are pale flax colour, tinged
with orange; the .ifides are dark brown. On the top of the head are
two dilated lines, blackish- oh the front, and passing mto ferruginous
on the crown and hind head, separated from each other by a whitish-
cinereous line; from the eye to,, the»- superior mandible is a black
line, which> as„#ell as the eye,, is enclosed by a dilated white line,
contracted behind the ey^ifrom the angle of the mouth proceeds
a black line, which is nihch dilated into a ferruginous spot on the
auricles; below this is a broad white line, margined beneath by a
narrow black one, originating at the inferior base of the lower