XX. FAMILY FRINGILLID.,E (THE SPARROWS).
Genus Pinicola. Pine grosbeak. Winter resident very rare; granivorous. Its food consists of linds and seeds of almost every sort of trees, and occasionally a passing insect.
Genus Carpodacus. Purple finch. Winter resident, frequent; granivorous. Its food is chiefly seeds and berries of red cedar, etc., with a sprinkling of insects and Geniis Chrysomitris. American goldfinch. Resident, common; rare iu winter; granivorous. Its food coneiste of many kinds of small seeds, especially of the thistle, lettuce, and other composite plants. Many pernicious seeds are thus destroyed.—Pine finch. Winter resident, rare; granivorous. Consumes the seeds of the thistle and allied plants, and thoee of the pine tree.
Genus Curvirostra. Red crosehill. Winter resident, very rare out of the pines; granivorous. Affects pine for este, tbe pecnliar structure of its bill having a peculiar adaptation for extracting seeds from the cones.- White-. winged crossbill. Winter resident, rare away from pine woods; granivorous. Same habits with the preceding species.
Genus "Egiothus. Lesser red-poll. Winter resident, very rare; granivoroue. Feeds on various small seede, especially of the alder, buds of the maple, etc.
Genus Plectrophanes. Snow bunting. Winter reel dent, very rare; granivorous. Feeds on various seeds, grains, and small insects. Mingles with the snowbird in, its familiar visits to the garden and house yard to glean the refnse from the kitchen. It is then noted as the white snowbird.—Lapland longapur. Winter resident, very rare; granivorous. Its food consists chiefly of seeds, and also of grass, leaves, buds, and ineects.
Genus Pa4erculus. Savanna sparrow. Summer resi dent. common; granivorous. It subsiste on various grass and other seeds, with such small insects and larvae as may fall in its way.
Genus Pooccetes. Bay-winged bunting. Resident, com mon in summer, rare in winter; grauivorous; feeds on the seede of graeees and a spice of the more savory insects. In search of the latter it sometimes visits plowed fields. Genus Coturniculus. Yellow-winged sparrow. Sum mer resident, frequent; granivorous; dwelle among g.rass, where its food, the grass-eeede, is abundant. It delights to add a few insects to its common fare.—Henslow's spar row. Summer resident, very rare; granivorous; habits similar to those of the preceding species.
Geuus Zonotrichia. White-crowned sparrow. Winter resident, not common; granivorous; subsisting on grass seeds, berries, coleopterans insects, etc.—White-throated sparrow. Winter resident, frequent; granivorons; habitts similar to the last.
Geniis Junco. Snowbird. Winterresident, very numer ous; granivoroua. Every one must be familiar with this Httle accompaniment of cold and storm, as it picks its ecanty fare of grass and other seeds from the lawn, the garden or the yard, wherever the winds or the housewife's broom 'have left the ground uncovered with SDOW.
Genus Spize//a. Tree sparrow. Winter resident, fre quent; granivorous. Sometimes seen during winter in. company with the snowbird, and feeding in a similar way. Field sparrow. Resident, common in summer; granivor one. The food of this species consists of seeds and insects.. They search the leavee and branches for moths, of which they seem to be fond.—Chipping sparrow. Summer resi dent, very common ; gramvorous. Its babits resemble those of other email sparrows; hut being confiding and self-domesticated, it feeds and breeds among the trees and shrubbery in our orchards, gardens, and yards, and even boldly crosses the threshold to pick the crumbs which. accident or design may have thrown in its way.
Genus Me/ospaa. Song sparrow. Resident, common ; granivorous. This lovely songster dwells in the orchard and erdentwhere it subsists on small seeds and insects. In winter it often associates with the snowbird, and exhibits the same familiar habits. Its song is one of the earliest harbingers of spring. -Lincoln's sparrow. NI igra tory ; extremely rare; gran,voro s ; habits resemble those of the former epecies; feeds on seeds, berries, and insects. —Swamp sparrow. Migratory, frequent in proper local ities; grauivorous. Feeds principally on the seeds of graeses, vvith a few insects.
Genus Passerella. Fux-colored sparrow. Winter res dent, frequent; granivorous. During their winter sojourn they frequent brier patches aud thickets to search among the fallen leaves for seeds and the remains of insects, larv, etc.
Genus Euspiza. Black-throated sparrow. Summer resident, common; granivurous. Their food consists of seeds, eggs of insects, and in the early part of stunmer of caterpillars and small coleopterans insect s —Townsend's sparrow. Summer resident, unique; granivorous. he food inferred from analogy to be, as in other sparrows, seeds and insects.
Genus Guiraca. Rose-breasted grosbeak. Summer resident, very rare and recluse; granivorous. The food of this beautiful bird consists of the seeds of cereal plants, of grasses, and those of different kinde of berries, along with insects, etc.—Blue grosbeak. Summer resi dent, very rare; granivoroue. They feed on grains, hemp-seed, millet, and the kernels of different sorts of berries.
Genus Cyanospisa. Indigo bird. Snmmer resident, frequent; grauivorous. The usual food of this species is ineects, and various kinds of seeds.
Genus Cardinalis. Cardinal grosbeak Resident, fre quent; granivorous. Indian corn constitutes their chiei and favorite food, when attainable. The seeds of apples, cherries, and of many other sorts of fruit, are also eaten, by them.
Genus Pipilo. Towhee bunting. Suinmer reeident, common; granivorous. He scratches continually among fallen leaves along the fences, in thickets, and brier patches, in quest of the seeds, and worms, etc., which are concealed there.