Gui RO) SCR iE eK, 
on the belly: the quills are edged with yellow, and the four 
outer tail feathers are yellow from the middle to the bafe: the 
bill is pale brown, and ftout; and the legs flefh-colour. 
The female inclines more to brown. 
The Greenfinch is pretty common in Great Britain, and makes 
the neft in fome low bufh or hedge, compofed of dry grafs, and 
lined with hair, wool, &c. laying five or fix greenifh eggs, 
marked at the larger end with red brown; and is fo careful of her 
charge during incubation, that fhe is now and then taken on the 
neft. The male takes his turn in fitting. This fpecies foon 
becomes tame; even old birds are familiar almoft as foon as 
caught: is apt to grow blind, if expofed to the fun, like the 
Chaffinch: flies in troops in winter: lives five or fix years *. 
It is alfo pretty common every where on the continent of 
_ Europe; not very frequent in Rafia; and not at all in Sidiria + 
which gives reafon to fuppofe that it fhifts its quarters according 
to the feafon. It is fufficiently common both in Cumberland and 
- Scotland ; yet in the firft, it is fcarce ever obferved in the winter 
feafon; but the laft week in March becomes plentiful, and 
breeds as in other-parts of England t. 
In the Leverian Mufeum is one quite white. 
Le Verdier de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 202. 
Not unlike the laft. The bill greenifh yellow: the head 
and neck greénifh grey: back, and wing coverts, light 
brown; thofe on the edge of the wing black: the fecond quills 
* Olina. 
+ It has however been met with in Kamthatka,a——Mr, Pennant. 
t Dr. Heyfham, 
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