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abdomen, whitish buff. Total length 4J in., tail i|- in. 

 bare. 



Hab : " Upper Amazonia, Guiana, Venezuela and 

 Colombia." (B. M. Cat., Vol. XII.). 



The Gutturai, Finch. 



30. 6\ guttmalis. Fig. i on plate. 



This is another charming and also a fairly freely 

 imported species and, as will be seen from the plate, 

 forms a pleasing contrast with the preceding three 

 species, castaneiventris, viimita, and ocellata. It is a 

 most pleasing species for either cage or aviary; it is a 

 good singer, but it does not utter its song so frequently 

 as some of the other species. It is long-lived, and not 

 unduly quarrelsome in a mixed series. In a state of 

 nature its feeding grounds are open pastures, and its 

 principal diet the various indigenous grass seeds. 



Adult male : The upper surface is dull olive- 

 green, upper back, blackish ; lesser coverts, olive- 

 green : median and greater coverts, dusky edged with 

 olive-green ; the inner primaries have yellowish-white 

 bases on the outer webs ; upper tail coverts, olive- 

 green ; tail - feathers, dusky brown margined with 

 olive-green ; crown of the head, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, cheeks, throat, sides of neck and foreneck, 

 dusky black ; breast, abdomen, sides of body and 

 flanks, yellowish white stightly tinged with green, 

 sides and flanks lightly mottled with black ; under 

 tail-coverts pale yellow ; beak, blackish horn ; legs 

 and feet, brownish grey. Total length 4^, tail if. 



Adult female : Upper surface, olive-brown, median 

 and greater coverts are dusky, edged with olive-brown, 

 and have their tips whitish, forming a somewhat 



