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CAPSA FINCH. 

 (Fringilla capsa.) 



Fr. rufo-grisea, facie gulaque alba, alls caudaque nigris, canda 



jbrficaia. 

 Reddish-grey Finch, with the face and throat white, wings and 



tail black, the latter forked. 

 Fringilla capsa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 912. — Lath, Ind. Orn. -1. 



440. 20. 

 Le dattier. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3.487. 

 Capsa Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 265. 17. 



Size of the House Sparrow : beak short and 

 thick ; the upper mandible black, the under yel- 

 lowish : fore-part of the head and throat white : 

 rest of the head and upper parts of the body grey, 

 inclining to red, especially on the breast : wings 

 black, reaching two-thirds the length of the tail, 

 which is also black, and forked: legs yellowish. 

 Inhabits Abyssinia and Barbary : is common about 

 granaries, assembling in flocks: it is said to have a 

 very fine and agreeable note, much superior to that 

 of the Canary, or Nightingale, but dies on being 

 transported from its native place : it is also com- 

 mon about the Date villages. 



