114 FINCH. 



88.— DWARF FINCH. 



LENGTH three inches and a half. Bill red, upper ridge and 

 beneath black ; plumage above pale brown ; chin pale yellow; from 

 thence, down the middle of the belly, to the vent, and under tail 

 coverts bright deep orange, almost crimson ; sides pale ash-colour, 

 crossed with pale buff lines ; over the eye, from the nostrils, a deep 

 crimson streak ; upper tail coverts crimson ; quills and tail brown, 

 the latter darker, and much rounded ; legs pale brown. 



A second of these, probably a female, had the bill, and upper 

 parts of the body, wings, and tail, as in the other ; beneath, from the 

 the chin, buff-colour, and marked on the sides as in the former; the 

 under tail coverts orange, the upper crimson ; but the streak over the 

 eye wanting. 



Inhabits Senegal. — In the Collection of Lord Stanley. In another 

 specimen, the edges of all but the two middle tail feathers were 

 crimson : and we have also seen further trifling Varieties, no doubt 

 owing to age or sex. 



89.— BARKED FINCH. 



SIZE of the last. General colour of the plumage much the 

 same; the upper mandible black, the lower red; chin and throat 

 black ; breast, and sides under the wings, crossed with eighteen or 

 twenty narrow bars of white, bounded above and below with brown ; 

 from the middle of the breast to the vent pale ferruginous chestnut. 



One, supposed to differ in sex, was somewhat paler, and wanted 

 the black on the chin and throat ; but the white lines or bars beneath 

 the body were much the same, and the colour down the middle of 

 the belly only deep buff. 



