FINCH. 51 



The female is pale ash-colour above, and dusky white beneath ; 

 over the eye a pale yellowish streak ; across the wings a bar of the 

 same; bill and legs pale. 



Inhabits India. — General Hardwicke. At first sight has some 

 resemblance to our House Sparrow, but is certainly a distinct species. 

 I observed a second, having the appearance of incomplete plumage : 

 this bird had the top of the head and region of the ears pale ash- 

 colour ; forehead straw-colour, passing over the eye as a streak ; 

 under the eye a bed of the same, but between the nostrils and eye 

 white ; chin pale yellow, passing in a broad streak under the ears, 

 and curving almost to the back of the neck ; breast mottled much 

 with black, but not enough to form a patch ; wings as in the female 

 above described, but the pale bar across them obsolete. 



5.— TREE FINCH. 



Fringilla montana, Ind. Orn. i. 433. Lin. i. 23-1. Gm. Lin. i. 925. Faun. Suec. No. 



243. Id. Retz. 250. Scop. i. 221. Brim. No. 267. Muller, No.264. Kramer, 



370. Frisch, 1. 1. Sepp, Vog. t. p. 79. Borowsk. iii. 145. Faun. Helvet. Phil. 



Trans, xlii. p. 405. Shaw's Zoo/, ix. 432. pi. 64. Tern. Man. d' Orn. 212. Id. 



Ed. ii. 354. 

 Fringilla arborea, Tree Sparrow, Amer. Orn. ii. pi. 16. f. 3. 

 Passer montanus, Raii, 87. Will. 185. Bris. iii. 79. Id. Svo. i. 329. Klein, 90. 20. 



Roman. Orn. i. 45. 1. 16. 2. 

 Loxia Hamburgia, Gm. Lin. i. 854. 



Pyrrhula Hamburgensis, Bris. iii. 314. Id. Svo. i. 396. 

 Der Baum Sperling, Naturf. xvii. 97. 



Friquet, Buf. iii. 189. t. 29. f. 2. PL enl. 267. 1. Hist. Prov.i. 519. 

 Le Hambouvreux, Buf. iv. 398. 



Passera montanino, Olin. Uc. t. p. 48. Zinnan. Uov. 81. t. 12. f. 72. 

 Hamburg Tree Creeper, Alb. iii. t. 24. 

 Hamburg Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii: 149. 

 Tree, or Mountain Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 252. Id. Slip. 163. Br. Zool. i. No. 12S. Id. 



1812. p. 458. pi. 159. Id.fol. 109. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 246. Will. Engl. 252. t. 

 26. Alb. iii. pi. 66. Edw. 269. Bewick, i. pi. p. 158. Lewin's Birds, ii. pi. 78. 



Wale. ii. pi. 216. Donov. Birds, iv. pi. 88. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



SOMEWHAT less than the last ; length five inches and a half. 

 Bill black; irides greyish hazel; head and nape chestnut; the chin 



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