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10. 
Var. A. 
DESCRIPFIONe 
Be 1) EN AG FT. 
erey, marked with blackith {pots at the large end. The male is 
feldom found far from the neft. 
The male is accounted among our finging birds, and the note 
is very pleafing to fome, but does not continue the whole year: 
thofe of Efex are moft efteemed*. With us botli fexes are feen 
at all feafons; but in Sweden the males only ftay, the females + 
migrating fouthward, to return in fpring{: flocks of females 
only have alfo been obferved in Hampjfhire |. 
This fpecies is expanded throughout Europe, as far as Gibral- 
tar; and is likewife met with on the coafts of Africa, the Cape 
of Good Hope §, and other parts 4. 
Several varieties of the Chaffinch are mentioned by authors.. 
Le Pingon 4 Ailes & queue noires, Brif. orm. 153. Av—Bujf. oi/. iv. 
2a teen 1G 
HE head and neck in this are afh-colour: cheeks brownifh: 
back and fcapulars the fame, inclining to afh: rump 
ereenifh: the under parts brownifh flefh-colour: the leffer and 
greater wing coverts white; the middle ones, quills, and tail, 
black; the two outer ones half way white on the outer 
margins. 
* Barrington’s Effays. 
+ Not all of them; as Muller mentions one being fhot in Fanuary. P. 31. 
t Amen, Acad. vol. iv. p. 595. N° 127. 
|| Br. Zool.—The migration of one fex only is not fingular to this fpecies : 
other birds will be mentioned in this work, whofe manners are not unlike in 
this particular. 
§ Hift. des vif. 
@ Found alfo at Aleppo. Ruffel. Alep. p. 70 
