. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 4 808 OBNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. mimber. Their color is a bluiali-whito, which is covered with fine brown dots: these dots are coarser in some speci- mens, and ahnost confluent near the greater end. Dimen- sions vary from .80 by .64 inch +o .76 by .60 incli. But one brood is generally reared in the seas
. The birds of New England and adjacent states [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature; together with a history of their habits .... Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 4 808 OBNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. mimber. Their color is a bluiali-whito, which is covered with fine brown dots: these dots are coarser in some speci- mens, and ahnost confluent near the greater end. Dimen- sions vary from .80 by .64 inch +o .76 by .60 incli. But one brood is generally reared in the season in tliis latitude. The description, by Wilson, of the habits of the Seaside Finch is so applicable to this species, that I give it here: "It inhabits the low, rush-covered sea islands along our Atlantic Coast, whore I first found it; keeping almost con- tinually within the boundaries of tide-water, except when long and violent east and north-easterly storms, with high tides, compel it to seek the shore. On these occasions, it courses along the margin, and among the holes and inter- stices of the weeds and sea-wrack, with „ rapidity equalled only by the nimblest of our Sand-pipers, and very much in their manner. At these times, also, it roosts on the ground, and runs about after dusk. " This species derives its whole subsistence from the sea. I examined a great number of individuals by dissection, and found their stomachs universally filled with fragments of shrimps, minute shell-fish, and broken limbs of small sea-crabs. Its flesh, also, as was to be expected, tasted of fish, or what is usually termed sedgy. Amidst the re- cesses of these wet sea-marshes, it seeks the rankest growth oi grass and seaweed, and climbs along the stalks of the rushes with as much dexterity as it runs along the ground, which is rather a singular circumstance, most of our climbers being rather awkward at ; AHMOOBOHD S MAEITIMUS. — Swainsm. Xbe Seaside Finch. Frinffinamari
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