FINCH. 



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Serinus Italicus, Bris. iii. 182. Id. 8vo. i. 357. 



Emberiza brumalis, Ind. Orn. i. 412. Gm. Lin. i. p. 873. Scop. i. No. 213. Shaw's 



Zool. ix. 387. 

 Verzellino, Olin. Ue. t. p. 15. Zinnan. Uov. 62. t. 9. f. 53. 

 Le Venturon de Provence, PI. enl. 658. 2. Hist. Prov. i. 512. 

 Brumal Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 199. 

 Citril Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 297. Will. Engl. 265. pi. 46. Russ. Alep. 65. 



THIS is rather bigger than the last. Bill brown ; plumage above 

 yellowish green, spotted with brown ; beneath, and rump greenish 

 yellow; the breast of the male much inclined to yellow; lesser wing 

 coverts greenish, the greater dusky, edged with green ; quills and 

 tail much the same, the last a little forked ; legs flesh-colour. 



This is common in the South provinces of France, and about 

 Rome; is found also in Greece, Turkey, and other neighbouring 

 parts : both this and the last are remarkable for their song, being 

 equal to that of the Canary Bird, to which they seem to have great 

 affinity. In Tyrol called Citrinello. 



53.— SAFFRON-FRONTED FINCH. 



Fringilla flaveola, Ind. Orn. i, 455. Lin. i. 321. Gm. Lin.i. 913. Spalowsk. Fog. 



i. t. 35. 

 Saffron-fronted Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 296. 



SIZE of the Canary Bird. General colour yellow; bill pale 

 with a brown tip ; forehead saffron-colour ; back inclining to green ; 

 quills and tail feathers edged with yellow, the last forked ; legs pale. 



Native place uncertain. A specimen was in the Museum of M. 

 de Geer, and another in the Leverian Museum, probably a mongrel 

 bird; as one in my collection, answering to the above description, was 

 given to me, as the produce of a Canary Bird and a Goldfinch. In 

 the collection of Gen. Davies was one, the same, only with the addi- 

 tion of a pale ash-coloured ring round the neck. 



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