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CHAFFINCH. CrassIh 
of a bluith grey: the fpace above the eyes, the 
cheeks, throat, and forepart of the neck, are red: 
the fides and belly white, tinged with red: the up-. 
per part of the back of a deep tawny color; the 
lower part and rump green: the coverts on the © 
very ridge of the wing black and grey; beneath 
them is a large white fpot: the baftard wing and 
firft greater coverts black, the reft tipt with white: 
the quil-feathers black; their exterior fides edaed 
with pale yellow: their inner and outward webs 
white on their lower part, fo as to form.a third 
white line acrofs the wing: the tail is black, ex- 
cept the outmoft feather, which is marked obliquely 
with a white line from top to bottom; and the 
- next which has a white fpot on the end of the 
inner web: the legs are dufky: the colors of the 
emale are very dull: it entirely wants the red on 
the breaft and other parts: the head and upper 
part of the body are of a dirty green: the belly — 
dnd breaft of a dirty white: the wings and tail 
marked much like thofe of the male. 3 
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