158 Mr. Selby's Description 



JuvEN. Rostrum lixsco-bruuneum ad basin luteum. Totum 

 corpus sLiprà luteo-cinereum fusco maculatum. Supercilia 

 lutea, geuœ lutea? fusco mixtai ; gula lateraque colli sordide 

 alba fuscis duabus striis. Jugulum pectusque sordide alba 

 fusco-maculata. Abdomen albidum, lateribus fusco-striatis. 

 Tectrices alarum remigesque secundaria; fuscte, marginibus 

 ferrugineis. Rémiges rectricesque albido marginate, his 

 duabus extimis macula albida cuneiformi notatis. Pedes 

 brunneo-fusci ; ungue haJlucis ferè recto, digito longiore. 



In Mus. Dom. Vigors. 



Descu. Bill yellowish-brown, palest towards the base of the 

 under mandible. Head and all the upper parts of the body 

 pale wood-brown tinged with yellowish-gray, the shafts 

 . of the feathers blackish-brown. Greater wing-coverts and 

 secondary quills blackish-brown deeply margined with 

 chestnut- or orange-brown, the tips white. Quills dusky- 

 brown, paler at the edge. Above the eyes a broad streak of 

 pale wood-brown. Cheeks and ear-coverts wood-brown, the 

 latter mixed with black. From the corners of the under 

 mandible on each side of the throat a streak of black- 

 ish-brown. Throat yellowish-white. Lower part of neck 

 and breast dirty-white with numerous dusky spots. Bellii 

 and vent white. Flanks with oblong dusky streaks. Tail 

 dusky, the outer feather with the exterior web, and half of 

 the interior, dirty-white ; the second with a small wedge- 

 shaped white spot near the tip. Legs and toes brown ; claws 

 not much hooked, the posterior nearly straight, and longer 

 than the toe. 



By Dr. Latham and several other writers, this bird is placed 

 in the genus Fringilla of Linnœus, probably on account of the 

 form of its bill, which is comparatively shorter and thicker than 



that 



