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BEAUTIFUL FINCH. 

 (Fringilla elegans.) 



Fr. supra mridis, collo cinereo, pectore Jla t vo > capistro gula uro- 

 pygio caudaque rubris, abdomine maculis lunatis albis. 



Finch above green, with a grey neck; yellow breast; red throat, 

 rump, and tail; and the abdomen with crescent-shaped white 

 spots. 



Fringilla elegans. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q12.—-LatJu Tnd. Orn. 

 1. 441. 22. 



Le beau Marquet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 497. 30.,/ 2. — 



Buff. PL Enl. 203. 1. 

 Beautiful Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 266. 19. 



Above five inches in length : beak, forehead, 

 capistrum, and throat, red : hind part of the head 

 and neck dirty ash-colour : back green : wings 

 the same; the quills tipped with dusky: breast 

 yellow ; with the belly, and sides, undulated with 

 irregular white lines: lower part of the belly, 

 thighs., and vent, white : rump and tail red, in- 

 clining to chesnut: legs flesh-colour. Inhabits 

 Africa. 



