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CRESCENT FINCH. 

 (Fringilla arcuata.) 



Fr. castanea, subtus alba, capite colloque inferiore nigris, torque 



taniaque pone oculos albis. 

 Chesnut Finch, beneath white; head and lower part of the neck 



black ; with a white mark behind the eyes. 

 Fringilla arcuata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 912. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 4-11. 21. 

 Passer Capitis Bona? Spei. Bris. 3. 104. 16. t. 5.f. 3. 

 Le Croissant. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 501. 

 Moineau du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. PI. Enl. 230. f. 8- 

 Crescent Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 266. 18. 



The Crescent Finch is about six inches in 

 length : beak black : head black, with a crescent- 

 shaped streak of white beginning at the eye, and 

 passing down on each side of the neck, increasing 

 in breadth till it meets in front, where it is broadest: 

 upper part of the neck black ; hinder part pale 

 brown : back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts, 

 chesnut : middle coverts black, with white tips : 

 greater ones and quills brown, bordered with 

 grey : tail dark brown ; legs the same. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



