eo Ne C EH. 
Fringilla celebs, Liz. Sy. i. p. 318. 3.—Faun. Suec. 232. (the male.) 
Fringilla fylvia, Lie. Sy. i. p. 318. 3. B.—Faun. Suec. 232. B. (the 
female.) —Scop. azn. i. N° 217.—Brun. N° 253. 4.——Mull. N° 255.— 
Kram. el. p. 367. 4.—Frifch. pl. 1.—Olin. uc. pl. in p. 31. 
Le Pincon, Brif: orn. iii. p. 148. 36.—Buf. cif. iv. p. 109. pl. 4.—P/, 
-enl. 54. f. Ie 
Chaffinch, Radi Syx. p. 88. 16, A.—Will. orn. p. 253. pl. 45. Albin. Fy 
pl. 63.—Br. Zool, i. N° 125.—4r@. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
IZE well known. Bill pale blue *; tip black: irides hazel : 
forehead black: crown, nape, and fides of the neck, blueifh 
afh-colour: fides of the head, throat, and fore part of the neck, 
reddifh: back chefnut brown, inclining to green on the rump: 
belly, thighs, and vent, rufous white: on the wing coverts a large 
patch of white; and acrofs the greater coverts a bar of the fame: 
quills black, with yellowifh edges; the bafe of them white, form- 
ing, when clofed, a fecond bar acrofs the wing: tail black, a 
little forked; the outer feather has a longitudinal ftreak placed 
obliquely, and the next to it a fpot of white, near the tip of the 
inner web: the legs are brown. 
The colours of the female are dull, “a incline to green; the 
vinaceous red colour is wanting: the breaft and belly dirty 
white: the reft not much unlike the male. | 
This in England is one of our moft common fpecies: makes 
the neft in fome well-clothed bufh, not very high, and compofes 
it of fibres of plants and mofs, lining it within with hair, wool, 
feathers, &c.: the eggs are five or fix in number, of a pale reddifh 
* In fpring and fummer; at other times almoft white. 
Vor, II, ; L1 grey, 
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CHAFFINCH. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
Femace. 
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