GREEN GOLD-FINCH. 



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by the name of Mule, or Canary Goldfinch : is 

 said to live upwards of twenty years : and is very 

 abundant throughout Europe, but not so common 

 in Africa, or Asia. 



GREEN GOLD-FINCH. 



(Fringilla Melba.) 



Fr. viridis, facie cauddque rubris, abdomine albo nigroque undu- 

 lato. 



Green Finch, with the face and tail red, abdomen undulated 



with black and white. 

 Fringilla Melba. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 3 19. 8.— Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 904. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 451. 5Q. 

 Carduelis viridis. Bris. App. 70. 

 Maracaxao. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 21 1. 

 Green Gold-finch. Edwards. 272. male. — 128. female. — Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 3. 286. 52. 



Size of the common Goldfinch : beak flesh- 

 coloured: forehead and throat bright red: line 

 between the beak and eye blueish ash-colour : 

 upper parts of the body yellowish green : wing- 

 coverts and secondaries greenish, with red mar- 

 gins : quills dusky : breast olive green : belly and 

 under the tail white ; all the under parts varie- 

 gated with dusky transverse lines : rump and tail 

 bright red : legs pale brown : female has the beak 

 pale yellow : top of the head and neck ash-colour : 

 base of the wings and rump yellowish green, in- 

 stead of red : and a brown tail, edged with dull 

 red. Said by Edwards to inhabit Brazil, and by 

 Linnaeus, China* 



