300 
69. 
‘-BAHAMA F. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Place. 
VARIETIES. 
70. 
BLACK- 
COLLARED F. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
Poe) ye CL Or. 
character, obferving, that the notes are loud and pleafant. This 
Jaft author fays, that it is more frequent at the Cape of Good Hope 
than the Greenfiach in Europe +. 
-Fringilla bicolor, Lia. Spf. i. p. 524-;38. 
Le Verdier de Bahama, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 202. 59. 
Le Verdinere, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 184. 
Bahama Sparrow, Caze/s. Car. i. pl. 37.— Ar. Zool. 
Br. -Muf. Lev. Muf. 
QIZE of a Canary-bird: \ength four inches. “Bill black: 
head, throat, and breaft, the fame: the reft of the bird dirty 
green. 
This fpecies is common in the woods of Bahama, where it fits 
perched on.the tops -of trees, and fings prettily, not unlike the 
Chaffinch. 
This bird varies in colour one in the Briti/h.Mufeum has an 
afh-coloured belly, and the vent tinged with red. This came 
from Jamaica. 
“In the fame place are two others: in one, neither the head, 
nor back part of the neck, are black; and the feathers of the 
back incline to afh-colour. “The fecond, 'brownifh olive above; 
beneath afh-colour: quills and tail dufky, edged with olive. The 
two laft from Bahama. 
“Le Worabée, Buf. of. iv. p. 54. 
~1'ZE and -thape of a:Cavary-bird. The bill fathioned much 
the fame, and black: the fides of the head beneath the eyes, 
the throat, fore part of the neck, breaft, and upper part of the 
f Ibis alfo found at Madeira. Forf. Ob/. p. 26. 
belly, 
