210 
r2. 
WHITE- 
HEADED 
F 
Descriprion. 
PLAGE. 
13. 
SULTRY 
F 
Duserierion. 
PLACE. 
Bik NG) Ee 
the forehead were apparently grey, but on lifting them up with a pin 
they were fine crimfon in the middle. As to the red on the breaft, 
it is well known that it is only to be feen at certain feafons; and if 
the bird be kept in a cage, it entirely lofes it, fo.as never to return. 
during confinement. 
SIZE of a Bulfinch: head, neck, and under parts from the breaft: 
white, marked on the fides and under the wings with a long patch 
of black, charged with numerous white fpots; acrofs the breaft a 
broad. bar of black communicating with the black on. the fides: be- 
fore the eye a crefcent of black : tail fhort and black :. the upper part 
of the back, the wings, and tail, are rufous brown;, the lower part of 
the back and rump crimfon; the bill alfo is crimfon:. legs pale 
brown. 
Inhabits New South Wales. From the drawings of General Davies.. 
Among the drawings of Mr. Lambert, 1 find. a bird greatly corre- 
fponding with the above, and which-may not unlikely prove different: 
only in fex: the bill and legs are the fame : the head, initead of white; 
is pale afh colour: back, wings, rump, and.tail, fimilar to the other, 
but rather more pale; but the crefcent of black on the upper part: 
of the breaft is the fame, joining with the black on the fides in the: 
fame manner, and the fides marked with the fame white fpots ;. the: 
under parts from the breaft white. 
ENGTH five inches and’ an half:. bill dufky: general- colour- 
of the plumage fine pale rufous brown; the under parts are plain, 
but on the upper, each feather is ftreaked down the middle with dufky. 
black, efpecially the crown, where the ftreaks are very broad and; 
diftint: ‘tail.even at the end: legs pale yellow. 
Inhabits the Mabratta country in India. 
