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CRESCENT F. 
DescriPTion. 
PLACE. 
1Qe 
BEAUTIFUL F. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
Be oD Ny Ce Ba 
Le Moineau du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Bri. orn. iii. p. 104. 16. plis. 
f. 3.—Pl. enl. 230. f. 1. 
Le Croiffant, Buf. of. iti. p. 501. 
IZE of a Houfe Sparrow: length fix inches. Bill black: 
the head, and neck before as far as the breaft, are alfo black: 
at the eye begins a ftreak of white, which paffes down on each 
fide of the neck, and, growing broader, pafles round the fore 
part, like a crefcent; hind part of the neck pale brown: back, 
feapulars, and leffer wing coverts, chefnut: the middle coverts 
black, tipped with white; the greateft, and quills, brown, edged 
with grey: tail deep brown: legs brown. 
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 
Le beau Marquet, Buj. o//. iii. p. 497. pl. 30. f. 2.—Pi. enl. 203. f. 1. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Myf. 
IZE of the Houfe Sparrow: length five inches. Bill red, a 
very little bending: forehead, all round the bill, and throat, 
red: breaft yellow: hind part of the head and neck dufky afh- 
colour: back and wings green; tip of the quills dufky: breaft, 
belly, and fides, croffed with irregular lines of white fpots: the 
lower belly, thighs, and vent, white: rump and tail red, inclining 
to chefnut ; the laft a little rounded: legs flefh-colour. 
Inhabits Africa. 
Fringilla 
