54.5 



CAPE FINCH. 

 ( Fringilla Alario. ) 



Fr. capite collo pectoreque atris, corpore castaneo subtus albo, 



rectricibus quatuor lateralibus lineola nigra. 

 Finch with the head, neck, and breast dark-coloured ; body 



chesnut, beneath white ; the four lateral tail-feathers with a 



black mark. 

 Fringilla Alario. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 31 Q. 9. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 905. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 462. §5. 

 Passerculis Capitis Bonae Spei. Bris. 3. 106. 17. t. 5.f. 2. 

 Cape of Good Hope Sparrow. Albin. Birds, 3. 6J. 

 Cape Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 315. 85. 



This inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and is 

 rather larger than the House Finch : beak pale 

 cinereous : head and neck black, the colour end- 

 ing in a point towards the breast, which, with 

 the under parts of the body, is white : upper parts 

 chesnut : quills blackish ; inner part of the lesser 

 ones, under the wings, and the tail, chesnut; the 

 four outer feathers of the latter with a longitu- 

 dinal dusky spot at the tip : thighs rufous : legs 

 brown. 



