FINCH. 105 



A.— Bengalus fuscus, Bris. iii. 205. Id. 8vo. i. 363. Buf. iv. 95. PI. enl. 115. 2. 

 Gere. Syre. iii. 312. A. 



Length under four inches. General colour of the plumage brown, 

 deepest on the belly; in some birds mixed with a little white on the 

 breast, and a small portion of reddish in others; on many of the 

 wing coverts a spot of white at the tip ; tail dusky black ; legs pale 

 yellow. 



One, thought to be the female, was wholly brown, and the wing 

 coverts not spotted with white. 



In some drawings from India, I observed two of these birds, the 

 one marked as usual, the other olive, probably meant for the two 

 sexes : and I learned from the late Mr. Tunstall, that having kept 

 them often, he observed that they became more spotted in proportion 

 to their age, and particularly one, which, when first in his possession, 

 had only here and there a white spot, became afterwards as it were 

 powdered with them. 



70— SENEGAL FINCH. 



Fnngilla Senegala, hid. Orn. i. 461. Lin. i. 320. Gm. Lin. i. 364. Shaw's Zool. ix. 543. 



Loxia Senegala, Daud. ii. 438. 



Senegalus ruber, Bris. iii. 208. t. 10. f. 2. Id. Svo. i. 364. 



Senegali rouge, Buf. iv. 99. PL enl. 157. 1. 



Senegal Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 312. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Bill reddish, edged 

 all round with brown, and beneath the under mandible a line of 

 brown, quite to the tip ; the same on the ridge of the upper 

 mandible : the greater part of the plumage is vinaceous red, but the 

 hind part of the head and neck, the back, scapulars, and wing 

 coverts, are brown ; the lower part of the belly, thighs, and under 

 tail coverts, greenish brown ; tail black ; legs pale grey. 



Inhabits Senegal. 



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