CHAPTER VT. 



THE FINCH FAMILY 



(Fringillidce}. 



The Olive Finch The Melodious Finch The Diuca 

 Finch The Black Bullfinch The St. Helena Seed- 

 eater The Grey Singing Finch The Alano 

 Finch The Ruddy Finch The Blood-stained 

 Finch The Totta Finch Hartlaub's Finch 

 The White-throated Seed-eater. 



N this family a very large number of 

 genera and species have been included, 

 some of which might well have been 

 placed elsewhere, especially the two 

 species with which it is commenced in the "List" of 

 the London Zoological Society namely, the Indigo 

 Bird and the Nonpareil. 



In reviewing our British birds I restricted the use 

 of the term " Finch " to those species which feed their 

 young by regurgitating food from their crops, and I 

 propose to follow the same course in this work, which 

 will at once eliminate the above-mentioned birds, and 

 a variety of others, some of which will be placed 

 among the Sparrows, and others with he Mannikins 

 and the Waxbills. One group has already been disposed 



