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FRINGILLID.E. 



and sides of the neck greyisli white ; breast dull greyish 

 brown spotted with black ; belly and under tail-coverts grey- 

 ish white ; legs, toes, and claws, brown. 



The whole length rather more than six inches. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing, three inches : the first 

 three quill-feathers nearly equal in length, but the second 

 rather the longest ; the fourth feather a little shorter than the 

 third ; the fifth more than one-eighth of an inch shorter than 

 the fourth. 



The female has the beak brown ; the head and neck of a 

 uniform brown colour ; the edges of the feathers on the back 

 and wdngs are buff colour ; chin, throat, breast, and all the 

 under surface of the body, pale wood-brown, rather darker 

 in colour on the sides and flanks. 



Black, white, and buff-coloured varieties of this species are 

 not uncommon. 



The vignette below represents bat-fowling, a mode of 

 catchinof birds at night. 



