FINCH. 129 



This is common in the woods of Bahama, where it sits perched 

 on the tops of trees, and sings prettily, not unlike a Chaffinch ; it 

 varies in colour. One, in the British Museum, has an ash-coloured 

 belly, and the vent tinged with red : this came from Jamaica. We 

 have likewise observed two others, one of which had neither the head 

 nor the back part of the neck black, but the feathers of the head 

 inclined to ash-colour : the second brownish olive above, beneath ash- 

 colour; quills and tail dusky, edged with olive. The two last were 

 brought from Barbadoes. 



113— LEPID FINCH. 



Fringilla lepida, Ind. Orn.i. 455. Lin. i. 320. Gm.Lin.i. 907. Jacq. Vog.v'u. t. 2. 



Shaw's Zool. ix. 513. 

 Lepid Finch, Gen. Si/n. iii. 299. Id. Slip. 167. 



LENGTH three inches and a half. Bill and eyes black ; general 

 colour of the plumage greenish brown ; over the eyes a fulvous stripe, 

 and a smaller one between them; chin fulvous; breast black; legs 

 grey. — Inhabits the woods about Havannah, in the Isle of Cuba, 

 and is easily tamed ; sings frequently, but in so weak a ton e, as to 

 be scarcely heard, except by very near approach : one of these had 

 several transverse streaks of black on the breast, instead of full 

 black ; over the eye, and the chin pale yellow : this probably may 

 be a young bird, or a female. In the Collection of Lord Stanley. 



114— WHITE-THROATED FINCH. 



Fringilla Pensilvanica, Ind. Orn.i. 445. Shaiv's Zool. ix. 499. 



albicollis, Gm. Lin. i. 921. Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 22. f. 2.* 



Passer Pensilvanicus, Bris. App. 77. Id. 8vo. i. 367. 



White-throated Sparrow, Edw. pi. 304. 



White-throated Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 272. Id. Sup. 166. Arct. Zool.n. No. 248. 



LENGTH six inches and a half; breadth nine; weight three 

 quarters of an ounce The bill dusky blue ; hides hazel ; from the 



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