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CHINESE FINCH. 

 (Fringilla sinica.) 



Fr. riifo olivacea, subtus testacea, remigibus rectricibusque nigris 



bast luteis. 

 Rufous-olive Finch, beneath testaceous ; quills and tail-feathers 



black ; luteous at the base. 

 Fringilla sinica. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 321. 20. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 910. — Lath. Lid. Orn. 1. 447. ^9' 

 L'Olivette. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 144. 

 Pincon de la Chine. Buff. PL Enl. 157. f. 3. 

 Chinese Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 277. 43. 



Length five inches : beak yellowish ; the base 

 of it, throat, and fore-part of the neck olive-green: 

 upper parts of the body olive-brown, with the 

 lesser wing-coverts, back, and rump, tinged with 

 rufous : the greater wing-coverts black : quills 

 half yellow, half black, with whitish tips : under 

 parts of the body rufous, with a yellow tinge on 

 the belly : tail black, yellowish at the base, the 

 most outward feather with the greatest proportion 

 of yellow : legs yellowish : female not so brilliant 

 in colour. Inhabits China. 



