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, 71/2, 101/2. Female, 71/2.
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.
187. 2. Fringilla Townsendi, Aud. Townsend's Finch.
Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 7. Female.
Claws very long, hind toe much shorter than its claw; upper parts very dark olivaceous-brown, with a slight tinge of red, which is more conspicuous on the rump and outer webs of the tail-feathers, and margins of the wings and quills; sides of the neck and body and feathers of legs similar, the rest white with dark brown triangular spots, lower tail-coverts brown, broadly margined with pale dull yellow.
Female, 7, 101/2.
Colorado of the West. Rocky Mountains.
Townsend's Finch, Fringilla Townsendi, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 236.