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1311ASILIAN FINCH. 

 (Fringilla granatina.) 



Fr. corpore rufescente, rostro rubro, temporibus uropygio abdo- 



mineque violaceis, cauda cuveiformi. 

 Finch with a rufescent body ; red beak ; temples, rump, and 



abdomen, violet; tail wedge-shaped. 

 Fringilla granatina. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 31£). 11. — Gmel. Syst, 



Nat. 1. 906. — Briss. 3. 210. 67. t. 9. f. 3. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 463. 97. 

 Le Granadin. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4-. l6g. t. 7./. 1 .—Buff. PL 



Enl. lOQ.f. 3. 

 Brasilian Finch. Edwards. 191. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 31(5. 87- 



This beautiful Finch is in length near five 

 inches : its beak is of a fine red, with the base 

 above blue : sides of the head blossom-coloured 

 violet: irides dark-coloured: eyelids scarlet: back, 

 quills, and scapulars brownish: the rest of the head 

 and body, (the throat, lower part of the belly and 

 thighs, which are black, excepted,) chesnut : rump 

 blue: tail black: legs grey: varies in having a spot 

 of brown between the beak and eye, and the hinder 

 parts of the body, above and below, violet ; there 

 are other slight varieties described : female with 

 the top of the head, throat, and under parts fulvous, 

 the latter palest : beneath the eyes a slight purplish 

 tinge: the lower part of the belly and vent whitish: 

 back grey brown : the rest similar to the male, 

 but duller. Native of Brazil, and is often kept in 

 confinement for its song. 



