PLATE X. 



Fringilla Benghalus : Linn.Syst, Nat. \. p, 323. 3^. (mas.) 



Fringilla Angolensis : Linn, Syst. Nat. \. p. 323. 31. (fern.) 



Fringilla Benghalus : dilute caerulea, capite dorsoque griseis, 



lateribus capitis purpureis. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2, 

 p. 461. 9i.— Lath, Syn. \\\,p, 310. 81. 



Le Bengali. Briss. Orn. 111. jd. 303. 60. pi. U).f. 1,-^11 f. Ois, iv, 



p, m,—Pl.EnI. 115,/. 1. 

 Blue Bellied Finch. Edzv pi. 131. (female) 



A pretty species of the Fringilla tribe, about the size of our 

 smaller Linnets. The bill and legs of this bird are of a pale flesh 

 colour : the body above, together with the wings, of a greyish brown : 

 the lower part of the back, rump, and whole of the underside, of a 

 delicate azure blue ; the tail blue, of a somewhat deeper tint, and 

 rather cuneated or wedge-formed. This is the general appearance 

 of the plumage in both sexes, excepting, only, that the colours are 

 usually somewhat brighter in tlie male than the female bird; and that 

 the male bird is distinguished further by having a dark red spot on 

 each side of the head, beneath the eyes, a character altogether wanting 

 in the female. 



It should be observed that these birds vary occasionally in the 

 colours of their plumage, particularly in the caerulean tints of the 

 under surface, which sometimes inclines to a pale rufous grey, or to 

 blue intermixed with rufous grey ; and in some instances when the 



