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HOUSE FINCH. 



( Fringilla domestica. ) 



Pr. remigibus rectricibusque fuscis y corpore griseo nigroque ; fascia 



alarum alba solitaria. 

 Finch with the quill and tail-feathers fuscous, the body black 



and grey, and a single white band on the wings. 

 Fringilla domestica. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1.323.30. — Lin. Faun. 



Suec. 242. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q25. —Lath. Lid. Orn. 1. 



432. 1. 

 Passer domesticus. Briss. 3. /2. 1. 

 Le Moineau. Buff'. Hist. Nat. Ok. 3. 474. 1. 1. 2g.f. 1. — Buff, 



PL Enl. 6.f. 1.— 55./. 1. young bird. 

 House Sparrow. Pain. Brit. Zool. 1. 127- 51. — Penn. Arct. 



Zool. 2. 382. G. — Albin. Birds. 1. 62. — Leivin. Brit. Birds. 2. 



77' — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 248. 1. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 163.— 



Mont. Brit. Birds. 2. — Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 154- 



This well known bird is about six inches in 

 length : the beak is dusky : crown of the head 

 ash-coloured : irides hazel : space round the eye 

 and from that to the beak black : behind the eyes 

 and back of the head bay : cheeks white : chin 

 and under part of the neck black and grey, 

 mixed : belly dirty white : wing-coverts chesnut 

 and black mixed, with a bar of a whitish colour 

 across them : quills dusky, with rufous edges : 

 back rufous and black, mixed : tail dusky, edged 

 with grey : legs brown. The female has the beak 

 lighter than that of the malej behind the eye a 

 white line ; the head and whole of the upper parts 

 brown ; under parts dirty white, sprinkled with 



