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BLUE-BELLIED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla benghalus.) 



Fr. dilute carulea, capite dorsoque griseis, lateribus capitis purpureis. 

 Pale caerulean Finch ; head and back grey; the sides of the 



head purple. 

 Fringilla benghalus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 323. 32. male. — Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. 1. 920. — Lath. hid. Orn. 1.46l. Ql. 

 Fringilla angolensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 323. 31. female. 

 Bengalus. Briss. 3. 203. 60. t. 10. f. 1. 

 Le Bengali. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 92.— Buff. PL Enl. 115. 



Blue-bellied Finch. Edwards. 131. female. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 

 310. 81. 



Length near five inches : beak whitish : irides 

 hazel : head, and upper parts of the body, grey ; 

 on each side of the former, behind the eyes, a 

 lunulated purplish red spot : quills brown, with 

 grey edges : lower part of the back and rump, 

 and all the under parts of the body, blue ; tail the 

 same, but paler: legs whitish: female without the 

 reddish spot on the sides of the head. This species 

 is liable to a few slight variations, which are scarcely 

 worth description, as the above will apply to all. 

 Native of Africa. 



