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FINCH. 



32.— WHITE-CHEEKED FINCH. 



Fringilla naevia, Ind. Om. i. 44S. Gm. Lin. i. 911. Shaw's Zool. ix. 496. 

 White-cheeked Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 278. 



SIZE of a Sparrow ; length five inches and three quarters. Bill 

 half an inch, pale ash-colour; head, neck, and under parts, the same, 

 streaked with dusky on the upper parts and neck ; beneath plain ; 

 back and thighs pale rufous, streaked with dusky ; sides of the head 

 white ; through the eye a reddish streak, bounded on the under part 

 with black ; on the under jaw a streak of black, which joins the 

 black above the eye at the hind part; tail dusky ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. From a drawing in the 



collection of Sir Joseph Banks. 



33 —BLACK-HEADED FINCH. 



Fringilla melanocephala, Ind. Om. i. 448. Gm. Lin. i. 911. Skate's Zool. ix. 531. 

 Black-headed Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 278. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill red ; head, and fore part of the neck 

 black ; back, wings, and tail, ferruginous brown ; sides of the neck 

 and under the wings a little streaked with black ; hind part of the 

 neck and belly white ; quills black ; legs lead-colour. 



34.— BROWN FINCH. 



Frinsilla fusca, Ind. Om. i. 448. Gm. Lin. i. 911. Shatv's Zoo/, ix. 532. 

 Brown Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 278. 



THIS is a trifle larger than the Wren. Bill dusky ; upper parts 

 of the plumage brown, the feathers edged with darker brown ; under 

 parts brownish white ; legs dusky.— The two last described from 

 Chinese drawings, in possession of the late Captain Broadley. 



