80 PINCH. 



40— BEAUTIFUL FINCH. 



Fringilla elegans, Ind. Om. ii. 441. Gm. Lin. i. 912. Shaw's Zool. ix. 465. 

 Le beau Marquet, Buf. iii. 497. pi. 30, 2. PI. enl. 203. 1. 

 Beautiful Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 266. Nat. Misc. pi. 505. 



SIZE of a House Sparrow ; length five inches. Bill red, a very 

 little bending ; forehead, all round the bill, and throat red; breast 

 yellow ; hind part of the head, and neck dusky ash ; back and wings 

 green ; tips of the quills dusky ; breast, belly, and sides crossed with 

 irregular lines of white spots ; lower belly, thighs, and vent, white ; 

 rump and tail red, inclining to chestnut ; the last a little rounded ; 

 legs flesh-colour. 



Inhabits Africa. Found at Mosambique by Mr. Salt. This 



seems to have much affinity to the Green Goldfinch. 



41— RED-FACED FINCH. 



Fringilla Afra, Ind.Orn.x. 451. Gm. Lin. i. 905. Shaw's Zoo/, ix. 448. 

 Red-faced Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 286. Brown. III. pi. 25. 



LENGTH near six inches. General colour of the plumage deep 

 dull green ; cheeks tinged with crimson ; prime quills dusky, with 

 dull orange edges; tail dull crimson : legs yellowish. 



Inhabits Angola, and probably differs from the Beautiful Finch 

 only in sex : one, in Mr. Bullock's Museum, has the same parts red 

 as in that bird ; body plain yellow olive ; wings, for the most part, 

 ferruginous orange ; rump and tail chestnut red ; bill pale. 



