556 FRINGILLID./E. 



in his published notes of the birds observed by himself, 

 mentions at page 33, that he found this Greenfinch rather 

 numerous in small flocks on the coast of Bonin, or, as it is 

 named in some maps, Bonin-Siam, an island between four 

 hundred and five hundred miles east of Japan. The birds 

 inhabited tall woods near the shore ; and M. Kittlitz adds, 

 that they ran with facility, and searched for their food on 

 the ground. 



The adult male has the beak of a pale flesh colour ; the 

 irides hazel ; the whole of the head, neck, back, and upper 

 part of the wings olive green, or wax yellow ; the exterior 

 edges of the wings, from the carpal joint to the base of the 

 primaries, gamboge yellow; the primaries greyish black, 

 with brilliant gamboge yellow edges on two-thirds of their 

 length, the outer third, forming the tip, of the same colour 

 as the body of the feather ; the greater wing-coverts and 

 the tertials grey ; the rump and upper tail-coverts of a 

 brighter yellow than the body ; the two middle tail-feathers 

 shorter than the others, and greyish brown ; the rest on each 

 side have the basal half gamboge yellow, the terminal part 

 greyish brown ; the form of the tail forked ; the chin, 

 throat, breast, belly, and under tail-coverts, light wax 

 yellow, inclining to grey on the sides of the body, and to 

 gamboge yellow on the belly and under tail-coverts ; the 

 surface of the smaller under wing-coverts yellow ; under 

 surface of the basal half of the tail-feathers pale yellow, 

 the ends grey. Legs, toes, and claws, pale wood-brown. 



The whole length of an adult male bird is six inches to 

 six inches and one quarter. From the carpal joint to the 

 end of the wing, three inches and a half: the first three 

 quill-feathers very nearly equal in length ; the fourth one- 

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

 quarter of an inch shorter than the fourth. 



In the female, which is rather smaller than the male, the 



