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ORANGE F. 
DESCRIBTIONs 
PEMALE. 
Phacke. 
Ale 
SURINAM F. 
DESCRIPTION, 
Brg) Ni Gin) ERs 
Fringilla Zena, Liz. Spf. i. p. 320.13» 
Le Pinfon de Bahama, Bri. orn. Hi. p. 168. 43. 
— a téte noire & blanche, Buf. oif. iv. p. 140. 
Bahama Finch, Cate/>, Car.i. pl. 42. & 
Orange Finch, Ard. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
IZE of the Chaffinch: length fix inches and a quarter. Bill 
lead-coloun : irides pale : the head, fore part of the neck, 
back, and fcapulars, black : on each fide of the head two ftreaks 
of white, the one above, the other beneath the eye: under the 
chin a large yellow fpot: the hind part of the neck, rump, and 
upper tail coverts, dull red: breaft orange-coloured: belly, 
thighs, and vent, white: wings brown; on the coverts a band 
of white: tail brown: legs lead-colour. 
In the female the colours are lefs vivid : the head and neck afh- 
colour: the under parts of the body are paler than the upper,, 
and a tinge of afh-colour runs through the whole of the 
plumage.. io 
This inhabits the Bahama Iflands, Famaica, and other parts 
of the Weft Indies and South America. ‘The manners. not known. 
Fringilla Surinama, Liz, Syf.i. p. 317. 2. 
La Linotte de Surinam, Defer. de Surin, vol. ii. p. 499.?: 
ELE Bill is fharp, and of a yellow colour: the body grey :. 
the belly whitifh : quills black; the prime ones near the bafe 
white; the fecondaries white both at the bafe and tips: tail even, 
blackifh ; the firft and fecond feathers have a white fpot on the 
infide; the third, fourth, and fixth, white at the tips. 
2: Inhabits. 
