1 6 8 



FINCH. 



+. AMADU. 

 VADE F. 



Amaduvade Finch, Gen. Sj>?, iii, p, 311, N°S|. 



TN fome drawings from India, I obferve two of thefe birdsj the 

 one marked as ufual, the other olive -, and, I make no doubt, 

 defigned for different fexes. Mr, Tunflall informs me, that he has 

 kept them often, and obferved that they became more fpotted, in 

 proportion to their age ; and that one in particular, which feemed 

 as it were powdered with white, when firft in his poffeirion, had 

 fcarce any white fpots about it. 



97- 

 YELLOW. 



THROAtED F. 

 Description. 



Place. 



Yellow-throated Finch, JrB, Zool. ii. N° 249.- 



"D ILL and legs blueifh grey : head and upper parts of the body 

 cinereous : primaries dulky, edged with pale brown : chin 

 white : on the throat a pale yellow fpot : belly dirty white. 

 Inhabits New 2'ork. 



98. 



LOVELY F. 



Description. 



Place. 



CIZE of a Sifiin. Bill red: general colour of the plumage 

 green : chin and fore part of the neck inclining to yellow : , 

 belly and vent elegantly barred with black and white : taildufky 

 black : legs pale red. 



Inhabits India. I met with the above among the drawings of 

 Lady Impey ; as alfo in fome others, in poffeffion of Mrs. Wheeler. 

 I have my fufpicions that it is either a young bird, or a female of 

 the Beautiful Finch*, as it differs very little therefrom in colour, 

 except in the forehead and throat, which are not red, as in that 



• VoL Iii. p. 366. 



bird 



