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FINCH, 



54.— YELLOW FINCH. 



Fringilla butyracea, Ind. Orn. i. 455. Lin. i. 321. Gm. Lin. i. 913. 



Chloris Indica, Bris. iii. 195. Id. 8vo. i. 360. Gerin. iii. t. 333. Kolb. Cap.W. 251? 



Shaw's Zool. ix. 477. 

 Indian Greenfinch, Edw. pi. 84. 

 Yellow Finch, G'eu. Syw.iii. 299. Jbm. 05*. p. 26. 



SIZE of the Canary Bird ; length four inches and a half. Bill 

 blackish brown, paler beneath ; irides hazel ; plumage above olive 

 green ; rump and under parts yellow ; over the eye a yellow streak, 

 a smaller one or two beneath the eye, and one of green passing- 

 through it; quills olive green, edged with white; tail forked, yellow 

 green; legs brown. 



Inhabits the East Indies, and said to sing exceedingly well ; also 

 the Cape of Good Hope, if the same with that which Kolben 

 describes ; he says, it is the size of a Nightingale ; bill broad ; back 

 and belly grass green ; most of the tail feathers green, and the wing 

 feathers mostly black. Mr. Forster found this bird at Madeira. 



A. — Length four inches and a half. Plumage in general on the 

 head, and upper parts, the colour of a Spanish olive; behind the 

 eye a yellow streak ; throat pale orange ; breast and upper part 

 of the belly greenish yellow ; the lower belly and vent yellowish ; 

 the lower part of the back orange, changing to yellow on the rump ; 

 legs dusky, claws black. 



I met with this in the Collection of General Davies, who supposed 

 it to have come from India, but was not certain ; it seems somewhat 

 allied to the Yellow Finch. 



