. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 00 NOIiTll AMERICAN JJIUDS. first iiialu bird of tliis si)ecies tliat notices it is sure to make an attack upon it, and is at once ti'apijcd. So pertinacious are tliey that even when thus ini])riHoned tlie cai)tive repeats its attack upon its supposed rival. They feed almost innnediately upon bein^f caught, and usually thrive in confine- ment, Audubon mentioning one that had been caged for ten years. This bird is very easily made to breed in confinement. Dr. Bachman has had a single pair th
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 00 NOIiTll AMERICAN JJIUDS. first iiialu bird of tliis si)ecies tliat notices it is sure to make an attack upon it, and is at once ti'apijcd. So pertinacious are tliey that even when thus ini])riHoned tlie cai)tive repeats its attack upon its supposed rival. They feed almost innnediately upon bein^f caught, and usually thrive in confine- ment, Audubon mentioning one that had been caged for ten years. This bird is very easily made to breed in confinement. Dr. Bachman has had a single pair thus raise three broods in a season. The eggs of this species measure .80 by .65 of an inch, and do not at all resemble tlu; eggs of the cyanca or umaina. They have a duU or pearly- white ground, and are very characteristically marked with blotches and dots of purj>lish and reddish brown. SPERMOFHILA, Swainson. Spmiinphihi, .()N-, Zoiil. .loui-. Ill, Nov. 1827, 348. (iy\\e, Pyrrhula fakirostris, Siiflicieiitly distiiiet from Spcniwphilnti, F. Cuv. 1822.) Hpiimphihi, C'AiiANl;*, Mus. Ht'iii. 1851, 148. (Type, Fringilla hypoleuea. Light.) Gkn. Chau. Bill veiy short and very much curved, as in Pijrrhula, almost as deep as long; the commissure concave, abruptly bent towards the end. Tarsus about equal to middle toe ; inner toe rather the longer (?), reaching about to the liase of the middle one; hind toe to the middle of this claw. Wings short, reaching over the posterior third of the exposed part of the tail; the tertiaries gradually longer than the secondaries, neither nuich shorter than tlie primaries, which are graduated, and but little difl'erent in length, the first shorter than the , the second and fourth equal. The tail is about as long as the wings, rounded, all the feathers slightly graduated, rather acuminate and decidedly niucronate. Smallest of American passerine Spermnpliila munliti. sharply The essential characters of this genus a
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