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PLACE. 
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4 AMERICAN 
GOLDFINCH. 
DescRipTiog. 
FEMALEo 
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lowed by a fecond band of black; and laftly by a white one: 
the quills are dufky: the tail dufky afh-colour. 
This inhabits Sweden, chiefly about Weft Bothnia. 
2 
Fringilla triftis, Liz. Sy. i. p. 320. 12. 
Le Chardonneret d’Amerique, Brif. ora. iii. p. 64. 3. 
——_———_ jaune, Buf. cif. iv. p. 212. 
m—— o— ——_————. de Canada, Pl. exl. 202. f. 2. 
de Surinam, D:/er. de Surin. vol. ii. p. 199. Gj 
American Goldfinch, Care/>. Car. i. pl. 43.—FEdw. pl. 274.— Ard. Zool. 
Green Sparrow of Guiana, Bancr. Guian. p. 181. ? (the female). 
Br. Muf. Lev. Mus. 
IZE of the Linnet: length four inches and a third. Bill 
white: irides hazel: fore part of the head black : the reft of 
the body yellow: thighs, and tail coverts, yellowifh white*: the 
wing coverts black, croffed with a band of white: quills black ; 
the edges and tips of the leffer ones white: tail black: legs 
white. - 
The female wants the black on the head: the upper parts are 
olive green: throat, breaft, and rump, pale yellow: belly, and 
vent, white : wings, and tail, like the male, but lefs bright. 
The young bird is at firft like the female in al] things, except 
in having the black forehead. 
Thefe inhabit North America, particularly about New York, 
where they are fummer birds, and feed on ¢hiffles, like cur Gold- 
finch. ; 
Alfo found at Surinam and Guiana, in the favannas. 
* Thefe parts in Brifon’s bird were grey. 
Fringilla 
