146 PINCH. 



chestnut; back and scapulars brownish ; rump blue; quills brown ; 

 tail cuneiform, black ; legs pale grey. 



The female has a red bill ; a little purple under the eyes; top of 

 the head fulvous; back grey brown ; throat and under parts pale 

 fulvous ; lower part of the belly and vent whitish, the rest not far 

 different from the male, but less bright. 



Inhabits Brazil and Guiana. Has an agreeable song, and fre- 

 quently kept in cages by the Europeans : is a very lively bird. 



Several Varieties occur ; some have a spot of brown between the 

 bill and eye ; and the hind parts of the body, both above and beneath, 

 violet. In others, the lower belly and thighs are of the same colour 

 as the upper parts; and in a few the tail is reddish. 



140— BLUE-FACED FINCH. 



Fringilla tricolor, Lid. Orn. i. 464. Lin. i. 323. Gm. Lin. i. 923. Shaw's Zool. ix. 510. 

 American Sparrow of Seba, Bancr. Guian. 182. 

 Blue-faced Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 318. 



THE forehead, temples, and throat of this bird, are blue ; region 

 of the nostrils black ; back the same ; shoulders green ; under parts 

 yellowish white ; quills black, the primaries green on the outer edge ; 

 tail black, even at the end. 



Inhabits Surinam. — Bancroft's bird had the breast lively blue ; 

 rump deep green ; wings and tail purplish black. 



141. -YELLOW-THROATED FINCH. 



Fringilla flavicollis, Ltd. Orn. i. 465. Gm. Lin. i. 926. Shaw's Zool. ix. 478. 

 Yellow-throated Finch, Gen. Syn. Slip. 168. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 249. 



BILL and legs bluish grey ; head and upper parts of the body 

 cinereous; prime quills dusky, edged with pale brown; chin white; 

 on the throat a pale yellow spot; belly dirty white. 



Inhabits New York. 



