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116— NORTHERN FINCH. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill reddish brown; crown of the head, 

 nape, and sides, black ; down the middle of the crown a white streak ; 

 through the eye a second ; and a round patch of the same on the 

 ears ; a short white streak also at the under jaw ; under parts of the 

 bird from the chin yellowish buff, surrounding - the neck ; back dusky 

 black, the feathers margined with buff-colour; wing coverts tipped 

 with white, and a patch of white on the inner coverts ; tail brown, 

 a trifle hollowed at the end, the two middle feathers ending in a 

 sharp point ; the two exterior ones chiefly white, but brown for some 

 length on the the margins of the inner web to some way from the 

 end ; and marked on the outer, a little way from the tip, with the 

 same; legs red brown. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay. — Mr. Bullock. 



117.— STRIPED-HEADED FINCH. 



Fringilla striata, Ind. Orn. i. 446. Gm. Lin. i. 923. Shaw's Zool. ix. 498. 

 Striped-headed Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 275. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 250. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill lead-colour; between 

 that and the eye, and the forehead yellow; on the head three black 

 stripes ; behind the eye another ; sides of the head whitish ; the chin 

 white; all the upper parts of the bird the colour of a Linnet, the 

 middle of each feather being very dark ; wing coverts and tail plain 

 brown, the last ssomewhat cuneiform ; quills dusky ; breast blue 

 grey; belly very pale ; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits New York in the winter, first appearing at the end of 

 October, chiefly among the brambles, brush wood, and thickets 

 departing in spring ; extends also as far as Georgia. 



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