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Ee Chardonneret noir 4 téte jaune, Brif. orz. iii. p.61. G. — Buf. aif. iv. 
p. 207. N°8. 
Cardueli congener, Razi Syz. p. 90. 2. 
A bird of kin to the Goldfinch, Wi//. orz. p. 257. 
ATHER bigger than a Goldfinch. The bill furrounded . 
with a faffron-coloured ring: the reft of the head, and up- 
per parts, blackifh: breaft greenifh black: belly, and under 
parts, brownith afh-colour: edge of the wing greenifh black: 
quills black, with more white than common in them: the ufual 
yellow parts merely yellowifh: quills black. 
This is, without doubt, a mere variety of the Goldjinch. Ray 
fufpects the * fame. 
Le Chardonneret mulet, Bri/. orn. iii, p. 62. H. 
——_——-——- metis, Buf. if, iv. p. 207. 
Canary Goldfinch, 4/éiz. ili. pl. 70. 8. 
Lev. Muf. 
HIS is rather larger than the common: the head is not un- 
like that bird, but lefS bright : the upper parts of the body 
yellowith brown; the under parts yellow: wings like the Gold- 
finch : tail yellow, tipped with black. 
This arofe from the two mixtures mentioned by 4/din. 
when it began to refume its former colours; and this circumftance happened 
. three times. — An electrified Goldfinch loft the red of the head, and yellow on 
the wings, fix months after. — Hi/?. des oif. from Klein, 
. * Forte /purium aliquod genus eft. 
Fringilla 
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Van. G. 
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