116 FINCH. 



A. — Common Grosbeak, Lcwin, New Holland Birds. 



Length four inches and a half. Bill crimson, beneath black; head, 

 neck, breast, and sides, ash-colour, deeper on the crown, and paler on 

 the chin ; from the nostrils a crimson streak passes over the eye, and 

 beyond it; back and wings olive-green ; quills dark within ; rump 

 and upper tail coverts crimson ; tail dusky, somewhat cuneiform in 

 shape ; legs yellow. 



Said to be found generally in barren tracts about Sydney, and 

 Parametta, in large flocks in autumn ; in spring chiefly in pairs ; 

 builds in low bushes an oval nest, with dead grass, lined with sow- 

 thistle down : the eggs are five or six in number, flesh-coloured, 

 marked with dull red spots. The male said to have a pleasant song. 



Inhabits New Holland. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



B. — In this the general colour is olive-brown, a crimson streak 

 over the eye, and on the rump, as in the others ; all but the two 

 middle tail feathers fringed at the ends with white. 



In the collection of Mr. Harrison. 



Individuals of the Temporal Finch seem to vary considerably 

 from each other; some are olive-green where others are brown, 

 otherwise the same, probably owing to difference of sex ; but those 

 with the green plumage are larger, and the tail more even at the 

 end. — One of these last, from New Holland, was named Deroo-gnan. 



In a specimen four inches long, the crown was ash-colour, the rest 

 of the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, pale brown, beneath 

 pale cinereous grey ; in the middle of the belly nearly white; from 

 the nostrils a pale crimson patch, spreading on each side beneath 

 the eye ; upper tail coverts dull crimson ; tail cuneiform, the two 

 middle feathers one inch and three quarters, the outer three quarters ; 

 colour deep brown; the bill orange ; legs brown. 



