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orange; the laft a litele forked: belly and vent dirty. white; 
marked with obfcure yellowifh and dufky fpots: legs lead- 
colour. 
This fpecies is found about Tripoli; in Syria: is a bird of 
paflage, and faid to fing very finely. ; 
We are indebted, for the three laft, to the pencil of Mr. Bruce,. 
from whofe drawings the defcriptions were taken.. 
La Linotte, Brif. orn. iil. p.'131. 29.—Bufi oif. iv. p. 58. pl. 1.—- 
Pl. end. 151. £2 1—Frifch. pl. 9.—Olin, uc. pl. in p. 45. 
Common Linnet, Radi Syz. p. go. A. 1.—Will. orn. p. 258. pl. 46.— 
Br, Zool. i. N° 130.—Ara. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
ar HIS bird is well known: the length of it five inches and a 
half. The bill grey, with a brown tip, and inclines to blue- 
in the fpring: the irides. hazel: the plumage on the upper: parts 
dark reddifh brown; the margins of the feathers pale: the head 
“feathers are very dark, with cinereous edges; and the fides of the 
neck of this laft colour: on the throat a line of brown, bounded’ 
on each fide with white: the under parts. of the body dirty 
reddifh white; the breaft is deeper than the reft, and in fpring- 
becomes of a beautiful crimfon: the fides fpotted with brown:: 
on the wings is a longitudinal white mark: the quills are dufky: 
the tail brown, edged with white, except the two middle feathers, . 
which have reddifh margins; the fhape of it a little forked: legs 
brown. 
The females and young birds. want the red fpot on the breaft, . 
but inftead of it have fhort perpendicular ftreaks of brown in the 
fame place: the female has alfo lefs white in the wings than the 
7 male,, 
