104 FINCH. 



part of the back, the rump, and all beneath, blue; on each side of 

 the head a curved purplish red spot, placed beneath the eyes, and 

 rather behind them ; quills brown, edged with grey ; tail pale blue, 

 a little cuneiform ; legs whitish. 



The female differs, chiefly in wanting the red spot beneath the 

 eyes. Some specimens have the under parts the same as the back, 

 only paler; in others, there is a tinge of red on the belly. Edwards's 

 bird was ash-colour, inclining to brown above, and pale blue on the 

 under parts, and tail, but without the red mark beneath the eyes. 

 What he supposed a female was cinereous brown, with only a slight 

 tinge of blue on the under parts, and probably was a young bird. 



Inhabits Africa. — One in Mr. Salt's collection, said to be com- 

 mon every where in Abyssinia, close to the houses ; in manners like 

 the Wren. 



69— AMADUVADE FINCH. 



Fringilla Amaudava, Ind. Om. i. 461. Lin. i. 319. Gm. Lin. i. 905. Raii, 92. Will. 



194 t. 46. Petiv. Gaz. 53. f. 1. Shaw's Zool. ix. 542. 

 Loxia Amaudava, Daud. ii. 437. 



Bengalus punctulatus, Bris. iii. 206. t. 10. f. 4. Id. 8vo. i. 364. 

 Fringilla rubra minima, Klein, 98. 15. 



Le Bengali picquete, Buf. iv. 96. t. 2. f. 1. PI. enl. 115. 3. 

 Amaduvade Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 311. Id. Sup. 168. Will. Engl. 266. pi. 46. Albin, 



iii. pi. 77. Edw. pi. 355. 1. 



SIZE of a Wren ; length four inches. Bill dull red ; plumage 

 on the upper parts brown, with a mixture of red ; beneath the same, 

 but paler ; middle of the belly darkest ; all the feathers of the wing 

 coverts, breast, and sides marked with a spot of white at the tip ; 

 quills grey brown ; tail black : legs pale yellowish white. 



The female differs, in having a mixture of white on the throat 

 and neck ; belly pale yellow ; otherwise like the male. 



Inhabits Bengal, Java, Malacca, and other parts of Asia. 



