372 NEW-YORK SISKIN, ORANGE, &c. FINCR 



243. Nevv-Vork LeTarin delaNoavelle York, D^if.'/^c«, iv. 231. — PLEnl. z()2.-'Latham,n, 2gi». 



Siskin. 



With a black crown : neck encircled with yellow : breaft and 

 rump of the fame color ; the laft fading into white : back olive 

 brown : wings and tail black, edged with white : belly and vent 

 whitifh. The crown of the Female wants the black : its colors 

 alfo in general are iefs brilliant than thofe of the male. Superior 

 in fize to the European kind ; but feems only a variety. 

 »iAcs. Inhdhits Nsw TorL 



344_. Orakge.^ Bahama Finch, Ca/^/Zj-,!. 42.— Z;a//$'fl»», ii. 276. 



Fringilla Zena, Lin. Syfi, 320. — Brifont^n^ 368. — De Bitfon, iv» 140 ? 



T7> With a yellow throat : head and neck black : above and be- 



' neath each eye a long white line : breaft orange-colored : belly 



* white : back greenifh : coverts of the wings black ; loweft order 



white : primaries and tail: duflcy, edged with white : legs lead-color. 



Ibmale. Head of the Female alh-color : baxk of a dull green : belly of 



a dull yellow. 

 Place. Ijihabits the Bahama ifles.^ 



2i<;. Red- TT With a white bill : cheeks, throaty and under fide of the neck. 

 BREASTED. * and breaft, of a rich crimfon : belly white : crown, upper part 



of the neck, back, wings, and tail, black: coverts crofted with two 

 lines of white : legs black. 



Eight of thefe were driven, in a. ftorm,, on Sandy Hook^ in Jj^ril 

 i']']^. Latham, ii. 272, 



