158 Mr. SeLByY’s Description 
Juven. Rostrum fusco-brunneum ad basin luteum. Totum 
corpus suprà luteo-cinereum fusco maculatum. Supercilia 
lutea, gene lute: fusco mixte ; gula lateraque colli sordide 
alba fuscis duabus striis. Jugulum pectusque sordide alba 
fusco-maculata. Abdomen albidum, lateribus fusco-striatis. 
Tectrices alarum remigesque secundariæ fuscæ, marginibus 
ferrugineis. Remiges rectricesque albido marginatæ, his 
duabus extimis macula albidà cuneiformi notatis.- Pedes 
brunneo-fusci; ungue hallucis ferè recto, digito longiore. 
In Mus. Dom. Vigors. 
Descr. Bill yellowish-brown, palest towards the base of the 
under mandible. Head and all the upper parts of the body 
pale wood-brown tinged with yellowish-gray, the shafts 
of the feathers blackish-brown. Greater wing-coverts and 
secondary quills blackish-brown deeply margined with 
chestnut- or orange-brown, the tips white. Quills dusky- 
brown, paler at the edge. Above the eyes a broad streak of 
pale wood-brown. Cheeks and ear-coverts wood-brown, the 
latter mixed with black. From the corners of the under 
mandible on each side of the throat a streak of black- 
ish-brown. Throat yellowish-white. Lower part of neck 
and breast dirty-white with numerous dusky spots. Belly 
and vent white. Flanks with oblong dusky streaks. Tail 
dusky, the outer feather with the exterior web, and half of 
the interior, dirty-white ; the second with a small wedge- 
shaped white spot near the tip. Legs and toes brown ; claws 
not much hooked, the posterior nearly straight, and longer 
than the toe. | 
By Dr. Latham and several other writers, this bird is placed 
in the genus Fringilla of Linnæus, probably on account of the 
form of its bill, which is comparatively shorter and thicker than 
that 
