'liujA^i The Green Finch. Chloris. 



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Numb. LVm. 



ITS Welglit is thirteen Drams ; the Length from the Point of the Bill 

 to the End of the Tail, is fix Inches and a half; Breadth, when the 

 Wings are extended, ten Inches and a half Its Bill is like that of the 

 Grosbeak^ but lefs, and half an Inch in Length, iharp pointed, and not 

 crooked ; the upper Mandible dusky, the nether whitifh ; the Tongue 

 is fharp, and as it were cut off, ending in Filaments ; the Eyes are fur- 

 niflied with nidating Membranes ; the Noftrils round, fituatc in the 

 upper Part of the Bill next to the Head; the Feet of a Flefh Colour; 

 the Claws dusky ; and the outer Toe at Bottom fticks faft to the middle 

 one : The Head and Back are green, the Edges of the Feathers grey ; 

 the middle of the Back hath fomething of a Chefnut Colour intermingled : 

 The Rump is of a deep yellow ; the Belly white, the Breaft of a yellowifh 

 green, and the Throat of the fam.e Colour with the Neck: The Fea- 

 thers contiguous to the Bill are of a deep yellowiih green. The Bor- 

 ders of the outermoft quill Feathers of the Wing are yellow, of the 

 middlemoft green, and of the innermoft grey ; the inner Feathers of the 

 fecond Row are grey, the outer green : All the reft of the covert Fea- 

 thers are green. The Feathers along the Ridge of the Wing are of a 

 lovely yellow, as is alfo the Coverts of the under Sides of the Wings. 

 The Tail is two Inches and a quarter long, made up of twelve Feathers, 

 of which the two middlemoft are all over black ; thofe next have their 

 outer Edges yellow, and the remaining four on each Side from the middle 

 outwardly are black, but all their inner Webs from Top to Bottom yel- 

 low. The Liver is divided into two Lobes, and hath a Gall Bladder an- 

 nexed. The Bird when dilleAed had a large Craw, and a mufculous Sto- 

 mach filled with Seeds of Plants. They build in Hedges; the outer- 

 moft Part of its Neft is made of Hay, Grafs, or Stubble, the middle of 

 Mofs ; the innermoft, on which the Eggs lie, of Feathers, Wool or Hair. 

 It lays five or fix Eggs of a pale green Colour fprinkled with fanguine 

 Spots, efpecially at the blunt end. The Colours of the Hen are more 

 languid, and not fo bright and lively ; on the Breaft and Back it hath ob- 

 long dusky Spots. 



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