50 FINCH. 



tipped with fine rufous, but this soon disappears; cheeks pure white ; 

 in other things like the Common Sparrow. 



The difference between the female of this and the Common sort 

 is but little ; the crown and nape brown, and the band above and 

 behind the eyes rufous white. 



This, if a Variety, as may be suspected, is not uncommon on the 

 Lower Appenines, along the Gulf of Liguria, and throughout Italy, 

 and has more the manners of the Mountain, than the common House 

 Sparrow. 



3— SPANISH SPARROW. 



Fringilla Hispaniolensis, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 353. 

 Moineau d'Egypte, Sevign. Ois. d' Egypt, pi. 3. f. 7. 



Bill stout ; body above black, feathers margined with yellowish 

 rufous ; crown and nape deep bright chestnut : over the eyes a white 

 streak, tending to the hindhead ; cheeks white ; throat, neck before, 

 and a narrow belt on the breast, black; middle of the belly white; 

 sides marked with long spots : female unknown. 



Found in Sicily, the Archipelago, South of Spain, and as far as 

 Egypt : described from a specimen sent from Gibraltar. 



4.— BLACK-BREASTED FINCH. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill dusky, brownish ash-colour; from 

 the nostrils, between the eye, and round it black ; sides of the head, 

 beyond the eyes, to the nape, ferruginous, growing broader, and 

 meeting at the back of the neck; the rest of the upper parts, and 

 wings are also ferruginous, marked on the back with short black 

 streaks; across the wing coverts a bar of white ; the quills and tail 

 dusky; chin, just under the bill, black; the under parts in general 

 dusky white; on the breast a large patch of black; legs pale. 



