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RING FINCH. 

 (Fringilla Petronia.) 



Fr. grisea, superciliis albis, gida lutea, rectricibus lateralibus apice 



intus macula alba. 

 Grey Finch, with white supercilia, luteous throat, and a white 



spot towards the tip of the exterior tail-feathers. 

 Fringilla Petronia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1.322.30. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1.919. — Lath. Ind. Om. 1. 435.6. 

 Passer sj'lvestris. Bris. 3. 88. 6. t. 5- f. 1. 

 La Soulice. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 49S. 30./. 1. — Biff. PL 



Enl. 225. 

 Ring Sparrow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 254. 4. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 



164. 



Length near six inches : the upper mandible 

 of the beak brown ; the under grey, with a brown 

 tip : head and upper parts of the neck and back 

 dirty grey, spotted with brown : under parts dirty 

 grey and white mixed : round the head, above the 

 eyes, a dirty white ring : fore-part of the neck 

 yellow : wings similar to the back : coverts and 

 secondary quills tipped with white : quills, and 

 tail, dusky with grey edges, with all the feathers 

 of the latter, except the two middle ones, with a 

 white spot near the tip of the inner web : rump 

 dirty grey. 



This species is very abundant in Germany, and 

 is likewise found over the greatest part of Europe, 

 but is nowhere so common as in the former place, 

 and is not found in this country : it is migratory 

 in the northern parts, but stationary in the 



