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LONG-BILLED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla longirostris.) 



Fr .jusco flavoque varia, subtus subfulva, capite nigro, collo torque 



castaneo, rectricibus olivaceis intusjlavo marginals. 

 Finch varied with fuscous and yellow; beneath subfulvous ; head 



black; neck with a chesnut ruff; tail-feathers olive, margined 



internally with yellow. 

 Fringilla longirostris. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 900. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1.447.48. 

 Fringilla senegalensis. Bris. 3. l?3. 40. t. 15. f. 2. 

 Le Pingon a long bee. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 143. 

 Long-billed Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 277. 42. 



Larger than the Chaffinch : above six inches 

 in length : beak long, and grey brown : head and 

 throat black: neck with a chesnut collar: back, 

 wing-coverts, scapulars and rump, variegated with 

 brown and yellow : quills brown, margined with 

 olive without, and yellow within; on the edges 

 of the secondaries the same: under parts of the 

 body orange yellow : tail olive, all but the two 

 middle feathers, fringed with yellow on the inner 

 edges : legs grey brown. Inhabits Senegal 



v. ix. p. 11. 31 



