FRINGILLID^. 31 



body is a fine reddish-orange, duller on the back and 

 brighter beneath : wing-coverts the same ; the greater 

 ones at their base black, which forms a bar : the quills 

 are also black, the greater ones having at their base 

 an oblique bar of orange, and some of the lesser ones 

 slightly margined externally with white : tail divari- 

 cated and black j some of the lateral feathers faintly 

 margined with orange : spurious wings black : legs 

 and claws brown. 



Sp. 9. Ca. melanotis. 



Ca. olivaceo-viridis siibtus albido-riifescens ; macula oculari auri- 



umque nigrd; capite collogue postice plumbeisj uropygio tec- 



tricibus superioribus caudce cinnabarinis. 

 Olive-green Finch, beneath whitish-red; with a black spot on the 



eyes and ears ; the head and neck behind lead-colour ; the rump 



and upper tail-coverts vermilion-i-ed. 

 Fringilla melanotis. Tetnm. PL Col. 221. y. J. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Length three inches 

 and a half: the head, the hinder part, and the sides 

 of the neck are of a leaden tint : the region of the 

 eyes and the ears black : the back and the wings are 

 of an olive-green : the rump and the upper tail-co- 

 verts are vermilion-red : the tail is black, with the 

 exception of the outer feather on each side, which 

 is ash-colour : the breast is of a pearly-grey : the 

 throat white, and all the rest of the under parts are 

 white slightly tinged with reddish : the legs and the 

 upper mandible of the beak are black. The female 

 is of a plainer colour : the region of the eyes and of 

 the ears of an ashy-black : and the red of the rump 

 of a brick-colour. 



