152 BIRDS OF E&YPT. 



Female. — Upper plumage olive, inclining to yellowish green 

 on the rump ; wings dusky brown, the feathers edged with 

 yellowish white ; three white bands are formed on the wing 

 by some of the primaries being marked with white, and the 

 greater and lesser wing-coverts being edged with the same 

 colour ; underparts dusky white. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 187. 



121. Carduelis elegans, Steph. Goldfinch. 



Abundant in the Delta in winter, but I am not aware of 

 its having been met with south of Cairo. I shot a specimen 

 out of some large flocks that I fell in with neai- Damietta in 

 March. 



Male. — Feathers round the beak and region of the eye 

 black ; forehead, and a broad patch beneath the chin, crim- 

 son, a black patch covering the top of the head and half 

 encircling the ear-coverts, the latter being nearly white ; back 

 and sides of the chest pale olive-brown ; wings black, with a 

 large golden-yellow patch crossing their centres ; quills tipped 

 with white ; tail-feathers black tipped with white ; under 

 surface of the body white, tinted on the breast and flanks with 

 pale brown ; legs and beak flesh-brown ; irides brown. 



Entire length 5 inches ; culmen 0"4 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 3 ; tarsus 05. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 196. 



122. EsTRELDA MELANOUHTNCHA, Antin. Black-bUled FincL 



This bird was discovered by Antinori near Alexandria in 

 1861. Von Heuglin (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 577) has not, ap- 



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