118 FINCH. 



95— VAN-DIEMEN'S FINCH. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill horn-colour, with a black 

 tip ; head pale olive-green ; from the nape to the middle of the back 

 slaty grey ; the rest of the back and wings as the head ; beneath the 

 body pale, but across the breast, as far as the slaty-colour reaches, it 

 is cinereous white; belly between the thighs ferruginous ; vent white ; 

 quills and tail olive-green, inner webs of the feathers dusky ; shape 

 of the tail a little hollowed, or forked at the end ; legs pale. 



Inhabits Van Diem en's Land. 



96.— CREAM-COLOURED FINCH. 



SIZE of a Linnet ; length four inches and a half. Bill black ; 

 plumage in general cream-colour, streaked with white on the crown 

 and nape ; but on the chin, throat, sides of the body, and back, with 

 dusky brown ; region of the eye white ; behind it a pale rufous streak, 

 reaching almost to the hindhead ; breast and belly white ; quills and 

 tail dusky ; legs yellow, claws black. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — General Davies. 



97.— AMERICAN YELLOW FINCH. 



Fringilla tristis, Ind. Orn. i. 452. Lin. i. 320. Gm. Lin. i. 907. 



Card uelis Americana, Bris.m. 64. Id. 8vo. i. 324. Klein, 97. No. 5. Gerin.'w. 



t. 368. 2. Bartr. Trav. 289. Nat. Misc. pi. 749. & 361 ? Shaw's Zool. ix. 464. 

 Le Chardonneret jaune, Btif. iv. 212. PL -enl. -202. 2. Descr. Surin. \\. 199. 

 Le Gaffaron, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 134. 

 Green Sparrow, Bancr. Guian. p. 1SI ? — female. 

 American Goldfinch, Gen. Syn. iii. 2S8. Id. Sup. 166. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 242. Edw. 



pi. 274. Cat. Car. i. 43. Amer. Orn. i. pi. 1. f. 2. 



SIZE of a Linnet ; length four inches and a half. Bill white ; 

 irides hazel ; fore part of the head black ; rest of the body yellow ; 



