322 GREEN GROSBEAK. Class 11. 



Northampton/hire * gives another inftance of fuch a 

 change, with this addition, that the year follow- 

 ing, after moulting, the bird recovered its native 

 colors. Bulfinches fed entirely on hemp-feed are 

 aptefl: to undergo this change. 



117. Green'. Belon a^j. 365. Verdone, Verdero, Antone. 

 Aflarandos, obf. 13. Zinan. 67,. 



Chloris. Gefner a^v. 258. Loxia chloris. Lin. fyj}. 304. 



Aldr. a-v. II. 371. Svvenfka. Faun. Suec.fp. 226, 



Olina, 26. Svenfke. Br. 242. 



Wtl. orn. 246. Grunling. Kram. 368. 



Raii fyn. a-v. 85. Griinfinck (Greenfinch) /'rZ/c/^ 

 Le Vcrdier. Brijfon anj. III. I. 2. 



190. Br. Zool. 107. 

 Grindling. Scopoli, No. 206. 



'ESCRIP. 



THE head and back of this bird are of a 

 yellowiih green ; the edges of the feathers 

 are grey ; the rump more yellow : the bread of 

 the fame color-, the lower belly white: the edges 

 of the outmoft quil-feathers are yellow, the next 

 green, the fartheil grey : the tail is a little forked : 

 the two middle feathers are wholly dufky : the ex- 

 terior webs of the four outmoft feathers on both 

 fides the tail are yellow. The colors in the female 

 are much lefs vivid than in the male. 



Thefe birds are very common in this ifland: 

 Nest, they make their neft in hedges j the outfide is 



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