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TRIPOLINE FINCH. 

 (Fringilla syriaca.) 



Ttr.Jusco nigricante Jiavoque varia, subtus albida maculis obscuris, 



vertice rubro. 

 Finch varied with fuscous, blackish, and yellow ; beneath whitish 



with obscure spots ; crown red. 

 Fringilla syriaca. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.Q2?. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



457. 80. 

 L'Habesch de Syrie. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 57. 

 Tripoline Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 301. 72. 



Larger than the Linnet : beak lead-coloured : 

 crown of the head bright red : cheeks, throat, and 

 fore-part of the neck blackish, variegated with 

 brown : remaining part of the neck, breast, upper 

 parts of the body, and smaller wing-coverts brown, 

 dusky, and yellow mixed : greater wing-coverts 

 deep cinereous, bordered with paler : belly and 

 vent dirty white, variegated with obscure dusky 

 and yellowish spots : quills and tail cinereous, 

 with orange margins : legs the same as the beak. 

 Native of Tripoli : sings very prettily. 



