48 LARK FINCH.
mandible * the chin and throat are pure white. The neck sjjtove, the
hack, and rump, are dull4 cinereous-brown, each feather of the interscapular
region having' a bladdsh-bifln, disk; the neck beneath
and breast are dull whitish-cinereous; a »small blackish-brim n
is on the middle of the breast;%tf^4helly and .vent are white. The
wings are dusky-brown; the leaser wing coverts are margined with
dull cinereous; the exterior primary isjpjuaLto the third; both are
veryplMe shorter than the second,.'srhich is_ longest; tjhe^outer webs
of the. ^O n d , third, and fourth primaries, being whitish near their
ibascs, form a dislincj, .spot on the wing. 'L'he laiL is. roundid, llu|'
feathers being blackish-bfidwn; the »two intermediate onesj.are‘ imma-
eulajte, somewhat paler than the others. The adjoining ones have a
sm a l l white spot at tip, which/ on othe lateral; increases in
size, until]?, on /the, exterior one, it occupies/»half - the total length -of
the feather ; whilst its exterior web is ‘.white/to the base.-
* 0 The female is-very similar to the male, but the colours'are. duller,
and the stijp&s^on the head are hot so decided; tte auricjilars', moreover,
are yellowish-brown.
TinsVspecies, hasjtheibill and feet precisely similar to those, of
Wilson?s, Black-throated Runting, and those other Fringiilse', < and
supposed Mmberizeei of whieh I have constituted the sub-genus A^^®,
in my “ Observations on Wilson’s Ornithology.j | l iIt cannot be mistaken
for'-any other species, being ;.vfcry peculiar in its »markings
and manners.