BO aN GE. 
Le Tarin noir, Brif. orn. iii. p. 69, A.u—Buf, off. iv. p. 233. N° 4. 
HIS is black, with a yellowifh crown; and met with in 
Silefia. 
Buffon mentions one taken at large, which he thought to be a 
mixed breed between a Canary and the Sifkin; the colour much 
like the laft-named: the upper parts mixed, grey, brown, and 
yellowifh olive; the laft chiefly on the neck, breaft, rump, and 
thighs: quills, tail, and almoft all the wing coverts, blackith, 
edged with yellowifh olive. 
Le Tarin de la Nouvelle York, Buf. oif. iv. p. 231.—P/. eal. 292. f. 1. 2. 
HIS is a trifle bigger than our fpecies. The bill fhorter: 
the top of the head black: throat, round the neck, and 
breaft, yellow: the rump is alfo yellow, changing into white on 
the upper tail coverts: the back olive brown; the edges of the 
feathers paleft: wings, and tail, black, moftly edged with white : 
the belly, and vent, whitifh: legs pale. 
The female is very like the male, but the colours lefs bright, 
and wants the black on the head. 
Inhabits New York. 
L?Olivarez, Buf. oif.iv. p. 232. N° 3. 
ENGTH four inches and a half. Bill cinereous: pupil 
blueifh: the upper parts of the body pale olive: beneath, 
yellow: head black: quills blackifh, edged more or lefs with 
Pp 2 yellow, 
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58. 
Var. A. 
DESCRIPTION» 
58. 
Var. B. 
DEscRIPTION. 
FEMALE 
PLAce. 
DeEscriPTION. 
