FRINGILLA. 
bird inhabits eauctl - a where it is as common 
Near granaries the c n {par rrow in Britain ; it feeds 
‘on the date as eal as a rain. 
Exscans. Above green, with cinereous collar; breaft 
ed ; abdomen with 
yellow ; frontlet, throat, rump, and tail r 
G Le beau mar rqutt, Buff. Beau- 
eae lunate oP 
tiful finch, 
Length = aches and in bulk refembling the common 
the bill and legs are red ; rump and tail chefaut- 
Tnhab its Afica 
Formosa. Green; chin and throat’ yellowith ; belly 
barred with black aa white ; bill and legs red. Lath. 
Lovely finch. 
Native of India, and perhaps differing only i in fex from 
the former. 
oc 
s 
{parrow ; 
red. 
TIS. ack ; See and lores rufous; bill black. 
Linn. Paffer niger, Briff. eo obualtototl, Ray. Pere noir’, 
Buff. Rufous-chinned. rs 
Size of a fparrow, with Ge legs black, and the irides 
red ; the {pecies ialiabits South America, and the Ainerican 
iflands. 
Arcuata. Chefnut, beneath white; head and lower 
part of the ‘ae black ; collar and ftripe behind the eyes 
mel. jMeineaw du Cap de Bonne Efperanc:, Buff. 
Cree Jjinch, Lath. 
ve of re Cape of Good Hope; the length of this 
bird 18 i inches ; the lefler wing-coverts are Reel, middle 
ones white at th e tip; quill and tail-feathers 
iTENS. 
Nit Stee I-blue black ; bill and le a “fefly-colour. 
mel. Pafer niger a “ythr orynchos, Brill Paffer indicus 
brachyurt causes eau du ee il, oo Short- tailed 
flefh-colour, 
ee inhabits 
Carthagena, in Sou th eee the plumage of which 1s 
entirely, black ; -the legs and bill d The Nootka 
finch, which is totally black, with a ae bill, is fuppofed 
to be : eg a vari 
Leucura. Yellowith, {potted with nee and varied 
with ae lines; beneath and head whitifh-yellow; tail- 
feathers whi pana ee Paffr albicilla ia a Briff, 
a acai A fp arrow, Al 
taly, aban Bologn 
oe HyuRA. Entirely ye flgy vith. Gmel 
bononienfis, Brill. Pafer brachyurus noftras, “Ray. Short- 
tailed ‘als ow, Will. 
ellow on the breaft and belly ead | the reft of 
The ase inhabits with the fc 
AN Above yellov v-brown, bene ‘yellow 5 
and chi n grey 3 vet white ; wings and tail brown with 
white es mel, Serinys jansaicenfis, Brill. Serino affinis 
¢ cinereo, luteo et fu a warius, Ray. Grey-headed finch, 
Lath. 
the boa 
Can head 
Length Jot tached: legs blueifh, claws brown, thort, 
and nore —lInhabits aueee 
~MaTica. Abo 
Pofer 
forked het el. 
Will. - 
“Larger than the hoeufe fparrow, and ange Dalmatia. 
wGaLus. Pale blue; head and back grey ; fides 
the ead purple. Gmel. 
Lat 
difh, beneath whiti 
Sclavaniess Briff. eae poe 
Nutive of Angola and Bengal. 
inches and three cee 3 the bill 7 fiefh-colour ; quill- 
eathers ‘brown sei aan ith Riek 5 tal 1 pale blue, a little 
cuneate white. “he nale is deftitute of the purple 
Fars ee fides of the head, sonfpewous in the male, 
— Pafferculus 
reddith brown ; cane rimfon; fides of t 
of pectoral band 
Bengali, Buf. "Bhe-bellied Sichy. 
The length is four. 
FLAMMEA. — 7 reft flame-coloured ; -body be 
neath rofy. neil la. o bai a Flaming "s nchy 
Ar&. Zool. CMa finch, Lath. 
Size of the red-pole $ the bill nf eu ; the whole of 
the top of the hea deep flame-colour, inclining to crimfon, 
and the legs pale brown. 
Defcribed by Linneus from the paintings of Rudbeck, 
as a native of Norland, and fuppofed to be peculiar to 
— regions. 
TLIACA. — ak — ae of haa upper part of 
the boa) fteel-blne, e3 in the middle olive, with 
the tip brown ; an ae pee : Giiates and coverts 
above rufous. Cine) C. 
Size ofathrufh. This Let inhabits South America. 
; bill ycllowifh ; feathers on the 
breait a ‘at th tips “hike £3 ingila fae, Brill, Le 
ing on bruit, Buf. le nch, Arét. 
A migratory f{pecies found in Norway sa ‘Sweden. 
MoxTivrINGILLA. e of the ve Las ath fine 
ellow. Gmel. Fringuello montanino, Olin. ale on a’ Ata 
denne, Buf 2) anil, brambling, bramblejinch, Will. 
ay, 
&e. 
gth fix inches and a half, and inhabits Europe and 
of the male are tawny, inclining in the female 
reddifh-grey ; the guill-feathers are black, edged with 
yellow 3 tail flightly forked, and the legs grey. Qne 
variety of this bird has the eye-brows and band on the. nape 
aera Baas beneath, and rump white; chin and breaft 
ing-c with whi an Another is 
diftinguithed by the ae colour of the plumage, and in 
havin 
DomesTICa. Oni and tail nigear oo brown;. aa grey 
and black; wings with a fingle e band. Linn. Fn. 
uec. Pafer cya Gein. Pafira noftrale, Ol. "Moi f= 
net franc, . Houfe Sp ahi ma Brit. wae &o, 
ral sera 
aces. 
a other fimilar fituations ; feeds 
alfo on infeéts, and lays about ive « or fix eggs, the colour of 
which is pale-afh with fpots e wn. 
The pri ee varieties ef this bird are rit, white; 2d, yele 
low, clouded above with chefnut; 3d, with the plumage 
blackifh. The ia of the female are more obf{cure than 
rai ‘a the male. 
ATA. Chefnut, ae a 3 crown crefted and 
. Gmel. 
"The per part ae Wee are, wings, an 
e head under the 
ereft black. This bird inhabits Cayenne 
CAROLINENSIS. a brown ; illy white ; face and 
black ; throat and rump fearlet. Lath. .Le- 
Moineau de la Cane ‘Bute Carolina Black faced finch. - 
Native of Carolina, and from its clofe affinity to the pre- 
ceding has been confidered:as the female-of that {pecies by - 
fome writers, Its fize is rather inferior, the fpecies criftata : 
‘being fix inches and an half i in. length, the fe on five - 
inches and an half. : 
Perronia.. Grey; epeliew: white’; chin pale yellow. 
° Lina, 
