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F I N C 



32- 

 WHITE- 

 THROATED F. 



White-throated Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 272. N" 32. — -JrB. ZooL li. N" 24&C 



'T'HIS fpecies has been feen in fmall flocks ztNewTork in Ja- 

 nuary, and is met with in funnnrier in Newfoundland. Some 

 of them have the orange fpot at the bafe of the bill vet]' obfcurcj 

 and want the white fpot on the chin; from which circumllance 

 fuch may be fuppofed to hz females* . 



57- 

 M- AMERICAN 



GOLDFINCH, 



American Goldfinch, Gen. Syn. iii. p. z88. N«57. — Aril. ZooL ii, N*242. 



'X'HESE birds are moftly called York Tellows, as coming 

 moftly from the neighbourhood of New York. 

 Mr. Tunjiall afTures me, that having kept feverai of them, both 

 male znd female conftantly loft their yellow in the winter feafon, 

 and became exaftly of the colour of my var. B. of the Sijhn f, and 

 as conftantly recovered their original plumage in the fpring. 



58. 

 4- SISKIN. 



Sifein, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 289. N" 58.— ^r^. ZooL ii. p. 383. I. 

 Fringilla fpinus, Sef/i Fog. pi. in p. 135. 



'X'HE above author has delineated the neft in the fame plate 

 with the bird. It is placed in the fork of a tree, rompofed 

 of dry bents mixed with leaves, and lined within with feathers of 

 various colours, and very, full of them. The eggs are three in 

 number, of a longifh form, and of a dull white. 



* Jrif. ZooL 



f iii. p. 291. Le Tarin de la Nouvelle York, Buf. Oif. iv. p. 231. — PL EnL 

 292. f. I, 2. 



Lepid 



