BE) ed NGS ie. | VER, 
Fringilla lepida, Liz. Sy/?. i. ps 320. 14. 
"THIS is lefs by one half than the Canary-dird. The general 
colour greenifh brown: bill and eyes black; above the eyes 
a.fulvous ftripe, and a lefler one of the fame beneath them: the 
chin fulvous: breaft black: legs grey. 
This fpecies inhabits the woods about Havaznah, in the ifland 
of Cuda, and is eafily tamed: it is very frequently finging, but in 
fo weak a voice, as.fcarce to be heard, except one is almoft clofe. 
fo-1t. 
Fringilla butyracea, Liz. Sy/?. i. p. 321. 22. 
Le Verdier des Indes, Brif. orn. il. p. 195. 55. 
du Cap de Bonne Efperance, P/. ez/. 341. f. 1 
Le Vert brunet, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 182. 
Chloris, or Greenfinch, Kolb. Cap. ii. pe 151? 
Tindian Greenfinch, Edw. pl. 84.- 
DIZE of the Canary-bird: length four inches and’a half. Bill 
blackith brown, paleft beneath: irides hazel: plumage on the 
upper parts olive green: rump and under parts yellow: over the 
eye a yellow ftreak; a fmaller ftreak or two beneath the eye ;.and 
one of green pafling through it: the quills olive green, edged 
with white: the tail, which is forked, yellow green: legs 
brown. : Q 
Inhabits the Eat Indies, and is faid to fing exceeding well. If 
this be the fame bird with that of Kolben *, he gives it the fame 
* His bird had a broad bill, the back and belly grafs green, moft of the tail 
feathers green, and the wings moftly black, This is the whole of his 
defcription, 
Q.q2 character, 
299 
67. 
LEPID' F. 
DeEscrIPTION. 
Prace, 
68. 
YELLOW F. 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
