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Van. F. 
Description. 
Bd ING GG Vet. 
coverts: the ends of fome of the quills half black, and tipped 
with white: legs white. 
That in the Leverian Mufeum has the parts which are ufually 
red, of a very pale red, a little gloffy. Briffon alfo fays he has 
feen birds of this fort. 
Buffon mentions one with a black head: the red parts very 
pale: the under parts greyifh white: the wing coverts pale olive : 
the yellow of the wings as ufual: wings, and tail, white: bill, 
and legs, reddifh white. 
This was caught at large. 
There is one alfo in the Leverian Mufeum wholly white; and 
another all white, except the crown of the head, which is mottled 
with red, and a crefcent of the fame under the throat: the 
wings yellowith. 
Le Chardonneret noir, Brif. orz. iii. p. 60. F. pl. 4.. f. 5. — Buf. of. ive 
p- 205. N° 7 
Lev. Muf, 
ENERAL colour black, except four of the middle quills, 
viz. from the fourth to the feventh, brimftone-coloured on 
the outer edge, and white within, from the bafe to the middle: 
bill, and legs,. whitith. 
Goldfinches entirely black are not uncommon; fome have the 
appearance of red about the head, others not. Of the firft of 
thefe is one in my collection, which had been a caged bird, and 
gradually became of that colour *. : 
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© This had hemp-/eed for its ufual food. Buffon mentions one that changed 
black all at once, after being four years ina cage, It kept fo for eight months,. 
when 
