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WHITE-CHEEKED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla nsevia.) 



Fr. cinerea maculis obscuris, subtus cinerea, genis albis, loris 



rufis, striga maxillari nigra. 

 Cinereous Finch, with obscure spots, beneath cinereous, cheeks 



white, lores rufous, with a black stripe near the jaw. 

 Fringilla naevia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 911. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



448. 51. 

 White-cheeked Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 278. 44. 



The White- cheeked Finch is a native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and is the size of the Com- 

 mon Sparrow ; measuring near six inches in 

 length : beak, head, and neck, pale cinereous ; 

 the upper parts of the latter marked with dusky 

 streaks : sides of the head white, with a reddish 

 streak passing through the eye, which is bounded 

 on the under part with black, and joins another 

 black streak, arising at the base of the under man- 

 dible : back and wing pale rufous, with dusky 

 streaks : under parts of the body plain cinereous : 

 tail dusky : legs black. 



