FINCH. 103 



in the drawing, we may conclude it to be cuneiform, though it does 

 not appear so. — Inhabits India with the other, and called Gulab 

 Chesm, or Red Eye. 



67.—CHINESE LONG-TAILED FINCH. 



SIZE of a Sparrow ; length, to the rump, four inches. Bill and 

 irides red ; plumage in general white ; tail very long, cuneiform, the 

 two middle feathers, measuring at least three inches, are narrow, and 

 end in a point ; on each side four or five others, shortening by degrees, 

 and pointed, all of them bending downwards; through the eye a 

 slender black streak : crown and nape yellow ; legs feathered almost 

 to the toes, which are red. 



A fine specimen of this is among some Chinese paintings, in the 

 possession of Mr. Forster, Fitzroy Square, and is probably the same 

 with that mentioned before in the Synopsis,^ of which I have a 

 a drawing, taken from one in the possession of the late Captain 

 Broadly ; this answers to the last described, as to general appearance, 

 being wholly white, but the feathers of the crown are also white, 

 rather elongated, and end in a point at the nape ; and the black 

 streak through the eye is wanting. 



Both of the above said to be natives of China. 



68. -BLUE-BELLIED FINCH. 



Fringilla Benghalus, Tnd. Orn. i. 461. Lin. i. 323. — male. Gm.Lin. i. 120. Spalowsk. 



i. t. 34. Daud.W. 435. 

 Fringilla Angolensis, Lin. i. 323. 31. — female. 



Bengalus, Bris. ii. 203. 1. 10. f. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 363. Gerin. iv. t. 366. Nat. Misc. t. 150. 

 Le Bengali, Bvf.'iv. 92. PL enl. 115. I. 

 Blue-bellied Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 310. 81. Edw. pi. 131.— female. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Bill dirty flesh- 

 colour ; irides hazel ; head and upper parts of the body grey ; lower 



* See Vol. iv. p. 563. par. 2d. in the note *. 



