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BEAUTIFUL FINCH. 

 (Fringilla elegans.) 



Fr. supra viridis, collo cinereo, pectore Jlavo, capistro gula uro- 



pygio caudaque rubris, abdomine maculis lunatis albis. 

 Finch above green, with a grey neck; yellow breast; red throat, 



rump, and tail ; and the abdomen with crescent-shaped white 



spots. 

 Fringilla elegans. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 912.- — Lath. Jnd. Orn. 



1.441. 22. 

 Le beau Marquet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 497. 30.,/ 2. — 



Buff. PI. Enl. 203. 1. 

 Beautiful Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 266. 19. 



Above five inches in length : beak, forehead, 

 capistrum, and throat, red : hind part of the head 

 and neck dirty ash-colour: back green: wings 

 the same ; the quills tipped with dusky : breast 

 yellow ; with the belly, and sides, undulated with 

 irregular white lines : lower part of the belly, 

 thighs, and vent, white : rump and tail red, in- 

 clining to chesnut : legs flesh-colour. Inhabits 

 Africa* 



