102 FINCH. 



The last bird is probably the Vengoline, mentioned by the Hon. 

 Daines Harrington,* which he says, will sing better than any bird 

 which is not European, except the American Mocking-Bird. 



65.— DUSKY FINCH. 



Fringilla obscura, Ind. Orn. i. 460. Shaw's Zool. is. 541. 



Fringilla atra, Gm. Lin. i. 918. 



La Linotte brune, Buf. iv. 84. 



Dusky Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 309. Edw. pi. 270. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill ash-colour ; plumage in general 

 dusky brown, or blackish, inclining to ash-colour on the breast and 

 rump ; and all the feathers tipped with a lighter colour ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits Angola, or Brazil. Mr. Edwards is uncertain of this, 

 as he took his description from a caged bird, and it was not known 

 from which of the places it originally came. 



66.— GOTAH FINCH. 



LENGTH five inches, or a trifle more. Bill black, curving a 

 little downwards ; top of the head, neck, and back, rufous brown ; 

 wings dull rufous ; tail deep brown, greatly cuneiform, the two 

 middle feathers two inches and a quarter long, the outmost one inch 

 and a quarter ; the four middle ones of nearly equal lengths, the rest 

 shorter by degrees ; between the bill and eye, and all beneath, pure 

 white ; legs yellow : the wings reach to the base of the tail. 



Inhabits India, and called Gotah. — From the drawings of Sir 

 J. Anstruther; with this is a second, probably differing in sex, said 

 to be about six inches long; bill and legs as in the other; plumage 

 much the same, and a white streak from the bill passes just over the 

 eye, finishing behind in a point : the tail is long, but as it is closed 



* See his Experiments and Observations on Singing Birds. — Ph. Trans. Vol. lxiii. 1773. 



