SEA-SIDE FINCH. 



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of slate blue, or fine light ash; breast ash, streaked with buff; belly 

 white ; vent bufF-colored, and streaked with black ; upper parts of the 

 back, wings and tail a yellowish brown olive ; intermixed with very 

 pale blue ; greater and lesser coverts tipt with dull white ; edge of 

 the bend of the wing rich yellow; primaries edged with the same 

 immediately below their coverts ; tail cuneiform, olive brown, cen- 

 tered with black ; bill dusky above, pale blue below, longer than is 

 usual with Finches; legs and feet a pale bluish white; irides hazel. 

 Male and female nearly alike in color. 



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