Clafs II. 



GOLDFINCH. 



B°S 



Genus XXII. F I N C H E S, 



I. The GOLDFINCH. 



Belon an). 353. PL enl. 4. f. I. 



Carduelis. Gejner av. 24.2. Cardellino. Zinan. 59. 



Aldr. a<v. ii. 349. Fringilla carduelis. Lin. fyfi, 



Cardelli. Olina 10. 318. 



Goldfinch, or Thiftlefinch. Wil. Stiglitza. faun. Suee./p. 236. 



em. 256. Stiglits. Br. 257. 



Raiifyn. a<v. 89. Stiglitz. ^<3w. 365. 



Le Chardonneret. Brijfon civ, iii - 2?r. Z<W. 10S. flats V. f. I. 



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*T"*HIS is the mod beautiful of our hard billed 

 **■ fmall birds •, whether we confider its colors, the 

 elegance of its form, or the mufic of its note. The ]>f cr . 

 bill is white, tipt with black, the bafe is furrounded 

 with a ring of rich icarlet feathers : from the corners 

 of the mouth to the eyes is a black line : the cheeks 

 are white : the top of the head is black -, and the white 

 on the cheeks is bounded almofl to the forepart of the 

 neck with black : the hind part of the head is white : 

 the back, rump and bread, are of a fine pale tawny 

 brown, lighted on the two lad: the belly is white: 

 the covert feathers of the wings, in the male, are black: 

 the quil-feathers black, marked in their middle with 

 a beautiful yellow; the tips white: the tail is black, 

 but mod of the feathers marked near their ends with 

 a white fpot : the legs are white. 



The female is diftinguifhed from the male by thefe 

 notes j the feathers at the end of the bill in the former 



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