248 SEA-SIDE FINCH. 



by a stripe of slate blue, or fine light ash; breast ash, streaked 

 with buff; belly white; vent buff-coloured, and streaked with 

 black; upper parts of the back, wings and tail a yellowish brown 

 olive; intermixed with very pale blue; greater and lesser coverts 

 tipt with dull white; edge of the bend of the wing rich yellow; 

 primaries edged with the same immediately below their coverts; 

 tail cuneiform, olive brown, centered with black; bill dusky 

 above, pale blue below, longer than is usual with Finches; legs 

 and feet a pale bluish white; irides hazel. Male and female 

 nearly alike in colour. 



