64 FOREIGN FINCHES IN CAPTIVITY. 



this bird is still in magnificent health, having outlived several 

 husbands. 



Illustrated from a living specimen and a skin in the author's 

 collection. 



THE GREEN CARDINAL, 



Gnbernafrix cristata VlEILL. 



| NHABITS the Argentine Republic to Northern Patagonia. 



The adult male above is yellowish green, with the shoulders 

 and anterior part of back streaked with black ; the lesser wing-coverts, 

 towards the top of the wing, golden yellow; median coverts black, 

 tipped with yellow and bordered externally with green ; greater coverts 

 and inner secondaries blackish, yellowish green externally, yellow on 

 the margins and whitish towards the tips; bastard wing, primary coverts 

 and quills blackish, edged with yellowish green; purer yellow on the 

 primaries, which have whitish edges to the outer webs; upper tail 

 coverts dusky, greenish externally; central tail-feathers blackish, edged 

 with yellowish green; the next pair blackish, with a yellow spot at 

 the end of the inner web; the remainder yellow with blackish shafts, 

 the outer feather streaked with black at the end of the outer web; 

 centre of crown black, crested; occiput yellow; nape and back of neck 

 uniform yellowish green ; lores black ; a broad eyebrow and the eyelid 

 golden yellow; a black spot behind the eye; ear-coverts uniform 

 yellowish green ; cheeks golden yellow ; throat black ; sides and front 

 of neck golden yellow ; chest and sides of body yellowish green ; breast, 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts golden yellow; thighs yellow; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries golden yellow; quills below blackish, yellow 

 along the inner edge. Length 7 A, inches ; beak slate-grey, the upper 

 mandible inclining to black; legs slate-grey; iris black, or nearly so. 



The hen, of which I received a very fine example from La Plata 

 in 1893, differs in its paler, duller, and browner colouring ; a broad 



