FINCH. 101 



effo-s are five or six in number, the size of those of a Linnet, bluish 

 white, faintly spotted with purplish red at the larger end, and some 

 scratches. The nest was built in a shrubbery, on a low branch of a 

 berry-bearing alder;* this is esteemed by M. Temminck as a distinct 

 species. 



64— ANGOLA FINCH. 



Frinsilla Angolensis, Ind. Om. i. 460. G?n. Lin. i. 918. Shaw's Zool. ix. 539. 



Serirms Angolensis, Gerin. iv. t. 361. f. 2. 



Linaiia Angolensis, Bris. Sup. 81. Id. 8vo. i. 368. 



Loxia cyanogastra, Bengali Cordon bleu, Daud. Om. ii. p. 436. 



Vengoline, Buf. iv. 80. Ph. Trans, lxiii. 254. Br. Zool. ii. App. p. 666. 



Linnets from Angola, Edw. pi. 129. — male & female. 



Angola Finch, Gen. Syn- iii. 309. 



SIZE of our Linnet. Bill brown, round the base black ; the 

 upper parts of the head, neck, and body, brownish ash-colour, 

 each feather darker in the middle ; round the eyes, and on each side 

 of the throat, white; the under parts of a plain dull orange; rump 

 and upper tail coverts bright yellow ; the greater wing coverts and 

 quills brown, edged with yellow ; tail the same, edged with grey ; 

 legs flesh-colour. 



The female is rufous brown above, each feather darkest in the 

 middle; sides of the head pale rufous; near the base of the bill a 

 brown mark, which passes towards the hindhead ; from the breast 

 to vent, pale rufous, spotted witli brown ; the rest partly like 

 the male. 



Inhabits Angola : the male called Negral, or Tobaque ; the 

 female Benguelinha; indeed their being of opposite sexes is not 

 certain. Mr. Edwards only supposes so, and it is probable, that, as 

 they are both said to sing well, they may have been males of two 

 different species, as females in general, seldom have a fine song. 



* Rhamnus frangula. — Lin. 



