FINCH. 55 



Passera mattugia, Olin. uc. t. p. 46. Gerin. iii. t. 33. 1. 

 Foolish Sparrow, Gen. Syn. iii. 255. Will. Engl. 249. 



SIZE of the House Sparrow. Plumage above rufous grey, 

 spotted with rust-colour; over the eye a white streak, and a yellow 

 spot on the throat ; beneath yellowish ; two bands of white on the 

 wings ; tail blackish, edged with rufous. 



Inhabits Italy about Bologna, probably the same with the last. 



In the drawings of General Hardwicke, is a bird not far different 

 from the Foolish Sparrow ; length four inches. Bill pale; plumage 

 above, in general pale, cinereous brown ; beneath and rump dusky 

 white ; over the eye a pale streak, passing backwards, and curving 

 round the ear ; on the throat a spot of yellow ; point of the shoulder 

 pale rust-colour ; across the wing two oblique pale streaks ; quills 

 dusky ; tail much the same, somewhat hollowed out in the middle, 

 the wings long, reaching to near the end of it; legs pale blue. 



Inhabits India. — In this drawing are both sexes. The female 

 seems much the same, but the colours are less bright. 



8.— SPECKLED FINCH. 



Fringilla Bononiensis, Ind. Orn. i. 436. Gm. Lin. i. 919. Shaiv's Zool. ix. 438. 

 Passer Bononiensis, Bris. iii. 91. Id. 8vo. i. 332. 



macula! us, Raii, 87. Will. 1S3. 



Speckled Sparrow, Gen. Syn. iii. 255. Will. Engl. 250. 



SIZE of the last. Bill yellow ; irides white ; head and neck the 

 same, marked with yellowish spots ; back and rump black, white, 

 and yellowish mixed ; under parts yellowish white ; quills dusky ; 

 tail and legs yellowish. 



Inhabits Bologna with the two last, and it is most probable, that 

 they all form but one species, in different periods of age. 



