540 DUSKY FINCH. 



which is not often the case with female birds: 

 the male, according to Mr. Edwards, is called Ne- 

 gral, or Tobaque, and the female, Benguelinba, in 

 Angola, where they are natives. 



DUSKY FINCH. 

 (Fringilla obscura.) 



Fr.Jiisco-nigricans, pectore uropygioque cinerascentibus, pennis apice 



dilutioribus. 

 Fuscous-black Finch, with the breast and rump cinerascent, the 



tips of the feathers palest. 

 Fringilla atra. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 918. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



460. 89. 

 La Linotte brune. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 84. 

 Dusky Finch. Edwards. 270. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 310. 79. 



Said by Edwards to inhabit Angola : it is in 

 length four inches : the beak is cinereous : the 

 prevailing colour of the plumage dusky brown ; 

 inclining to cinereous on the breast and rump : 

 tips of all the feathers lightest : legs dusky. 



