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BLACK-COLLARED FINCH. 



shafts of the sides and front of the neck ferru- 

 ginous : tail dusky, with dirty white edges ; the 

 outer feather with a clear white line running its 

 whole length. Native of Norton Sound. 



BLACK-COLLARED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla Abyssinica.) 



Fr. flcwa,) suhtus collarique ceroids nigra, alis caudaque nigris 



marginibus Jlavescentibus. 

 Yellow Finch, beneath and collar round the neck black; wings 



and tail black, with yellowish margins. 

 Fringilla Abyssinica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 927. — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1. 457. 79. 

 Le Worabee. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 54. 

 Black-collared Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 300. 76. 



Known at Abyssinia, of which place it is an in- 

 habitant, by the name of Worabee : it is the size 

 of a Canary : the beak is black : the cheeks, 

 throat, fore-part of the neck, breast, and upper 

 part of the belly, black : at the back of the neck 

 arises a collar of black, which unites on the fore- 

 part : wing-coverts and quills black, with pale 

 margins : crown of the head, rest of the body, and 

 lower part of the belly, yellow : tail black, with 

 greenish yellow edges : legs pale brown : is met 

 with in flocks, and feeds on the seed of a plant 

 called nuk. 



