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CHAF-FINCH. 

 (Fringilla Ccelebs.) 



Fr. remigibus utrinque albis, tribus primis immaculatis, rcctrici- 



bus duabus oblique albis. 

 Finch with quills on each side white, the three first of which 



are immaculate, the two outer tail-feathers obliquely white, 

 tringilla Ccelebs. Lin. Syst. Nat. I. 318, 3. mas. 0. fem. — 



Lin. Faun. Suec. 232. — Gmel.Syst. Nat. 1. 901. — Bris. 3. 148. 



36.—Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 436L 12. 

 Le Pingon. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. IC9. A.— Buff. PI. Enl. 



54. £ 1. 



Chaf-finch. Venn. Brit. Zool. 1. 125. — Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 381. 

 f. — Albin. 1. 63. — Lewin. Brit. Birds. 2. 79* — Mont. Brit. 

 Birds. 1. — Bewick. Brit. Birds. 160. — Lath, Gen. Syn. 3. 257. 

 10.— -Lath. Syn. Sup. l65. 



The Chaf-finch has the beak blueish, with black 

 tips ; irides hazel : forehead black : crown of the 

 head, back, and sides of the neck, blueish ash- 

 colour : cheeks, under side of the neck, and breast 

 vinaceous : back chesnut brown : belly white, 

 tinged with vinaceous : bastard wing and coverts 

 of the primaries black; secondaries tipped with 

 white : lesser coverts black and greyish, with a 

 white spot in the middle : quills dusky, slightly 

 margined with greenish yellow on the outer webs, 

 and marked with white on both webs at the base : 

 rump greenish : tail dusky, the exterior feathers 

 obliquely marked with white, the next tipped with 

 the same : legs dusky. Female dull green above, 



