FINCH. 121 



wings black, with two rows of dull white ; quills, under the coverts, 

 rich yellow; rump and tail coverts yellowish, streaked with dark 

 brown ; tail rich yellow from the base to the middle, the rest of the 

 length, and the whole of the two middle feathers, bluish brown, 

 slightly edged with yellow; sides under the wings cream-colour, 

 with long streaks of black ; breast light flaxen, streaked with black ; 

 legs purplish brown. Male and female much alike. 



The birds inhabiting Mexico by the names of Acatechichictli 

 and Cacatototl, seem to be one and the same with this. Said to sing 

 agreeably, and to feed on the seeds of a tree called Hoauhtli. 



99.— ORANGE-TAILED FINCH. 



LENGTH five inches and a half; size of a Reed Bunting. Bill 

 pale; plumage above brown, with darker streaks; over the eye from 

 the nostrils an obscure pale streak ; on the ears a dusky patch ; on 

 each side of the throat a streak of dusky brown, within which the 

 chin is dusky white, but just under the bill more dusky ; breast and 

 under parts of the body dusky white, streaked with rusty brown ; 

 middle of the belly, between the legs, orange; base of the greater 

 quills, for more or less than half the length, orange, the rest brown; 

 lower part of the back darker than the rest; rump paler ; both plain ; 

 tail feathers two inches long, all of the side ones orange for three- 

 fourths from the base, the rest of the length dusky black, the two 

 middle wholly dusky black ; legs pale. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. — Supposed to inhabit America. 



100.— BLACK-FACED FINCH. 



Fringilla cristata, Ind. Om.'i. 434. Gm.Lin.i. 926. Shaw's Zool. ix. 440, 

 Le Friquet huppe, Buf. iii. 496. 

 L'Aroquira, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 136. 



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