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DESCRIPTION, 
66. 
AUTUMNAL f. 
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Feed 5 Nie (Gap: hs 
neighbouring parts *. Both this and the laft are remarkable for 
their fong, which is faid to be as fine as that of the Canary-bird, 
to which both thefe feem to have great affinity. 
Fringilla flaveola, Lin. Spf. i. p. 321. 24. 
Lev, Muf 
IZE of a Canary-bird: general colour yellow. Bill convex, 
of a pale colour, with a brown tip: the forehead faffron- 
colour: the back inclines to green: quills and tail edged with 
yellow; the laft forked: legs pale. 
Linnaeus fays, this was in the Mu/feum of M. de Geer; but from 
whence it came unknown. 
I find it likewife in the Leverian Mufeum, but without any 
hiftory annexed. 
I fufpect that it is a mongred bird, as one in my collection, 
anfwering this very defcription, was given to me as the produce 
of a Canary-bird with a Goldfinch. 
-Fringilla autumnalis, Liz. Sy/f. 1. p.:320. 18> 
"J HIS is faid to be of a greenifh colour: the top of the head 
~ ferruginous: vent teftaceous: and the tail even at the 
-end. 
Inhabits Surinam. 
* Rufél mentions the Cztr7/*being common at Aleppo, and that it is frequently 
eaten there by the Freach. Hift. Alep. p. 65. 
Fringilla 
