106 FINCH. 



A.— Le Danbik, Buf. iv. 100. 



Length four inches and a half. Bill red, ridge at top, and point 

 black; face, and sides round the eyes, crimson, continuing on the 

 breast, but paler; the same on the sides under the wings ; but is 

 there marked with minute white spots, four near the end of each 

 feather; body above olive-brown ; lower belly and vent pale brown ; 

 tail rounded, the upper coverts and outer webs deeply fringed with 

 crimson, approaching to the colour of dragon's blood. 



The female smaller ; no red about the head or breast ; but the 

 same white spots on the sides. 



Inhabits Abyssinia, brought from thence by Mr. Salt. 



B. — Buffon mentions one of these being killed at Cayenne, but 

 it most probably had been a caged bird, which had escaped ; this 

 differed a little from the first described, as the wings were lightly 

 edged with red, and the bill entirely so ; the breast and sides spotted 

 with white ; the legs reddish. 



It is observed, that these birds do not change the feathers more 

 than once in a year in this climate ; however this may be, I have 

 now in my collection, a bird which died without a single spot 

 upon it, which once was full of them, and had been brought over 

 with other Spotted Amaduvades as one of those birds : hence we 

 may suppose, that the Senegal and Amaduvade Finches are very 

 nearly allied, if not the same, in different states of plumage. 



The above named Finches are both natives of Senegal, and 

 feed on millet : this affords the natives an easy method of catching 

 them, by means of a hollow gourd, supported with the bottom 

 uppermost, on a stick, with a string leading to some covered place, 

 and some millet being strewed beneath, these birds hastening 

 in numbers to pick it up, are caught under the trap, by the stick 



