FINCH. 85 



47- CHINESE FINCH. 



Fringilla Sinica, Ind. Orn.'i. 447. Lin. i. 321. Gm. Lin. i. 910. Shaw's Zool. ix. 524. 



Osb. Voy. ii. 329. Bris.m. 175. t. 7. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 355. 

 Tanagra Sinensis, Ind. Orn. i. 426. Gm. Lin. i. 897. 

 L' Olivette, Buf. iv. 144. 



Mesange de Nanquin, Son. Voy. ii. 204. pi. 114 ? 

 Chinese Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 229. 

 Chinese Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 277. 



SIZE of a Linnet ; length five inches. Bill yellowish ; plumage 

 above olive-brown, with a tinge of rufous on the wing coverts nearest 

 the body, back, and rump ; round the bill, throat, and neck before, 

 olive-green ; the rest of the under parts rufous, tinged with yellow 

 on the belly ; under wing and tail coverts fine yellow ; greater coverts, 

 farthest from the body, black ; quills and tail black, the feathers of 

 both yellow, half way from the base ; the yellow occupying more 

 space on the latter, as the feathers are more outward, shape forked ; 

 legs yellowish. 



The female said to be less bright in colour. — In the collection of 

 General Davies. 



48— ASIATIC FINCH. 



Fringilla Asiatica, Ind. Orn. i. 447. 



— Sinensis, Gm. Lin. i. 915. Shaw's Zool. ix. 470. 

 Le Tarrain de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 202. 

 Chinese Siskin, Gen. Syn. iii. 293. 



THE bill and head in this are black ; neck behind and back 

 olive-green ; fore part of the neck, belly, and vent, yellow ; wing 

 coverts the same, the lesser crossed with two black bands, the larger 

 tipped with a black spot ; quills black, the greater yellow half way 

 from the base ; tail coverts yellow ; tail even, from the base to the 

 middle yellow ; the rest black ; legs black. 



Inhabits China with the last, probably differing in sex. 



