94 



FINCH. 



57.— TRIPOLINE FINCH. 



Fringilla Syriaca, hid. Orn. i. 457. Gm. Lin. i. 927. Shaw's Zool. ix. 535. 

 L'Habesch de Syrie, Buf. iv. 57. 

 Tripoline Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 301. 



THIS is a little larger than a Linnet. Bill thick, short, and of 

 a lead-colour ; top of the head fine bright red ; cheeks, throat, and 

 fore parts of the neck, blackish, mixed with brown ; the rest of the 

 neck, breast, upper parts of the body, and lesser wing coverts, brown, 

 dusky and yellow mixed ; the greater deep ash-colour, with paler 

 edges; quiljs and tail the same, but the edges are bright orange, 

 the last a little forked ; belly and vent dirty white, marked with 

 obscure yellowish and dusky spots ; legs lead-colour. 



This is found about Tripoli, in Syria : is a bird of passage, and 

 sings finely. The three last from the drawings of Mr. Bruce. 



58— COMMON LINNET. 



Fringilla Linota, Ind. Orn. i. 457. Gm. Lin. i. 916. 



Linaria, Bris. iii. 131. Id. 8vo. i. 343. Frisch, t. 9. Faun. Helvet. Raii, 90. A. 1. 

 Will. 190. 



Fringilla Linota, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 365. 



Fanello, Olin. Uc. t. p. 45. Zinnan. Uov. 61. t. 9. f. 51. Cet. Uc. Sard, 208. 



La Linotte, Buf. iv. 58. pi. 1. PI. enl. 151. f. 1. Hist. Proo. i. 511. 



Grauer Hanfling, Naturf. xvii. 95. 



Common Linnet, Gen. Syn. iii. 302. Br. Zool. i. No. 130. /(/. 1812. i. p. 462. Id. 

 fol. 151. f. 1. Bradl. Nat. pi. 10. f. 1. Albin, Birds, pi. p. 31. Collins, 

 Birds, pi. 5. f. 3, 4. Beivick, Birds, i. 171. Bolton, Birds, i. pi. 27. Leivin, 

 Birds, ii. t. S3. Wale. Birds, ii. pi. 221. Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 12. Orn. Diet. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill grey, with a brown tip, 

 inclining to blue in the spring; irides hazel; plumage on the upper 



