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LONG-TAILED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla macroura.) 



Fr. cauda elongata cuneiformi, corpore Jusco nigricante maculato, 

 subtus cinerascente, rectricibus diiabus intermediis marginibus- 

 que later alium virescentibus. 



Finch with an elongated cuneiform tail ; body fuscous, spotted 

 with dusky, beneath cinerascent; the two intermediate tail- 

 feathers, and the margins of the lateral ones, greenish. 



Fringilla macroura. Gmel. Syst. Nat .1. 918. — Lath. bid. Orn. 

 1. 460. 90. 



Long-tailed Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 310. 80. 



This bird is the size of the liedpole, but its long 

 tail makes it appear much larger, the whole bird 

 measuring above seven and a half inches in length: 

 the upper parts of its plumage are fuscous, with 

 dusky spots ; the feathers being darkest in the 

 middle : quills brown, with greenish margins : 

 under parts of the body pale ash-colour : tail 

 wedge-shaped, and very long, with the two middle 

 feathers narrow, and sharp at their tips : legs and 

 beak brown. Inhabits Cayenne. 



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