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- GLOSSY FINCH. 



--■(Fringilla nitens.) 



Fr. chalybeo-nigra, rostra pedib usque camels. 

 Glossy-black Finch, with the beak and feet flesh-coloured. 

 Fringilla nitens. Gmel Sytf. Nat. I. gOQ. — Lath. Ind. Om. 1. 

 442. 25. 



Passer niger erythrorynchos. Briss. 3. 120. 24. 



Moineau de Bresil. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 486.— Buff. PL 



En!. 2Q1. f. 1. 2. 

 Glossy Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 267. 21. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 



1 65, 



/3. tota nigra, rostro pedibusque concoloribus. 

 Entirely black, beak and feet (he same. 

 Fringilla JEthiops. Gmel. Syit. Nat. 1. ()08. 

 Moineau de Cayenne. Buff. PI. En/. 221. f. 3. 



Length four inches and a half : beak flesh* 

 colour : irides white : plumage entirely of a blue- 

 black, shining like steel : legs the same as the 

 beak : female with the feathers on the upper parts 

 blackish, margined with yellowish brown : under 

 parts dusky yellowish brown : behind and above 

 the eye a blackish streak : rump grey. The male 

 is sometimes found entirely of a black colour, and 

 with the irides rufous. 



This species is a native of North America : it 

 feeds on fruits and seeds, is easily tamed, and in 

 that state feeds on bread : it has a very slight note, 

 which requires great exertion to produce it. 



