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CAROLINA FINCH. 



(Fringilla carolinensis. ) 



Fr. rubro-fusca, abdomine albo, facie fatsciaque pectoris nigra, 



jugulo uropygioque coccineis. 

 Reddish-brown Finch, with the abdomen white, face and band 



on the breast black, jugulum and rump scarlet. 

 Fringilla carolinensis. Lath. Inch Orn. 1. 435,5. 

 Fringilla cristate. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 926. 2. 

 Le Moineau de la Caroline. Biiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 496. — 



Buff. PI. Enl. 181./ 2. 

 Black-faced Finch. Perm. Arct. Zool. 1. 255. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 



3. 253. 3. female. — >Lath. Syn. Sup. 164. 



About six and a half inches in length : top of 

 the head and chin black : neck crimson ; upper 

 parts of the body, wings, and tail, pale reddish 

 brown: breast with a black band: rest of the 

 under parts white, mixed with black at the thighs: 

 quills black : legs brown. Found in Carolina, 



