COWPEN, AND GOLDEN FINCH.. 



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XXVI. F I N C H. Gen. Birds. XLVIIL 



Cowpen-bird, Caiejhy, i. ^^.— Latham, ii. 269. 2fi • Cowpin. 



Le Pinjon de Virginle, BriJJon, in. 165. 



Le Brunet, De Buffon, iv. 138.— Lev. Mus.-^Bl. Mus, 



FWith the head and neck of a dufky brown : back, wingSj 

 • and body, of a fine black, glofled with green and blue : tail 

 the fame : legs black. Crown and upper part of the Female deep 

 brown : throat white : breaft and belly light cinereous brown : wings 

 and tail dufky, edged with brown. Bigger than the Englijh 

 Bulfinch. 



Arrives in New 7'ork in Alay : lays five eggs in June : and ntii- Plxcs. 



grates fouthward in Auguft. Appears in flights in winter, in Virginia 

 and Carolina, and afTociatcs with the Redwing Orioles, and Purple 

 Grakles. It delights much to feed about the pens of cattle % which 

 giave occafion to the namco • , 



American Goldfinch, Catefiy, i. 43. 



Fringilla Triftis, Lin. Syft. 320. 



Le Chardonneret jaune, De Buffon, iv. 21 2.' 



•Ed-vj. i^if^-^Lathdm, ii. 285. 



?l. Enl. 202.— Bl. Mus. 



rp With a flefli-colored bill : fore part of the head black : reft 

 of the head, neck, and whole body, of a moft beautiful gold 

 color J whitening towards the vent : wings black, with two lines of 

 white : tail black : inner webs of the exterior feathers white : 

 legs brown. Female wants the black mark on the head : whole 

 upper part of an olive green ; lower part of a pale yellow : in other 

 marks the fexes agree : on coverts of wings two bars of yellow. 



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