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BLACK AND ORANGE FINCH. 

 (Fringilla melanictera.) 



Fr. nigra, abdomine alho macidato, alls candaque Jerrugineb 



marginatis. 

 Black Finch, with the abdomen spotted with white ; wings and 



tail margined with ferruginous. 

 Fringilla melanictera. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 91O. — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1. 442. 26. 

 Moineau de Macao. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 486.— Buff. PL 



Enl. 224. f. l. 

 Black and Orange Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 268. 22. 



The black and orange-coloured Finch is four 

 inches and a half in length : the beak is pale 

 brown : prevailing colour of the plumage deep 

 black, with the margins of the wings and tail 

 orange-coloured : belly spotted with white : legs 

 pale brown. Native of Macao. 



