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breast; wings and tail black, the latter rather forked ; wings reach 

 two-thirds on it ; legs yellowish. 



Inhabits Abyssinia ; found also in Barbary, to the south of 

 Tunis; it flies in flocks, and is frequent about granaries, like our 

 Sparrow ; often seen in the date villages, to the west of the Lake of 

 Marks; has an exceedingly fine note, much better than that of a 

 Canary Bird, or Nightingale, but will not bear to be transported 

 from its native place. 



20— ALPINE FINCH. 



Sturnus collaris, Lid. Orn. i. 323. Gm. Lin. i. S05. Scop. i. No. 192. 



Motacilla Alpina, Gm.Lin.'x. 957. 



Avis Kyburgensis, Gesn. Av. t. p. 725. 



Fringilla gularis, Fluelerche, Andr. Briefe aus der Schiveiz, p. 202. tab. 13. 



Fringilla, in Etruria, Sordone dicta, Gerini, iii. 338. f. 1. 



Accentor Alpinus, Tern. Man. d'Om. p. 142. Ld. Ed. p. 248. 



Le Fauvette des Alpes, Bvf. v. 156. pi. 10. PL enl. 668. 2. 



Collared Stare, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 8. Shaw's Zool. x. 487. 



Alpine Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 434. 25. 



LENGTH seven inches, breadth ten. Bill seven lines long, rather 

 stout at the base, sharp edged, and pointed at the end; pale yellow, 

 with a blackish tip ; irides hazel, or crimson ; plumage above dusky 

 grey, marked with spots of darker brown on the back ; wing coverts 

 tipped with triangular white spots ; rump brown and white mixed ; 

 chin and throat white, marked with numerous, small dusky black 

 spots; breast and belly brown, the feathers undulated with faint 

 black lines; sides rufous orange; the tail dark brown, somewhat 

 hollowed out at the end ; inner webs marked with pale rufous white 

 at the tips; legs yellowish horn-colour; hind toe long: we do not 

 learn whether there is any difference between the two sexes, but in 

 some birds the tip of the tail is dusky white. 



Inhabits Carniola and Carinthia; found also on the Alps, and 

 high mountains of Auvergne, and Dauphiny, except in extreme cold 



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