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WHITE-HEADED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla leucocephala.) 



Fr. Jusco-rtifa, capite albo, uropygio rubro, fascia pectoris lunu- 



laque ante oculos nigris. 

 Brown-red Finch, with a white head, red rump, band on the 



breast, and lunule before the eyes, black. 

 Fringilla leucocephala. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. xlviii. 1. 

 White-headed Finch. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 210. 12. t. 132. 



The White-headed Finch has the beak crimson : 

 the head, neck, and under parts from the breast, 

 white : the breast and sides being black, the latter 

 spotted with white : between the beak and eye is 

 a small lunulated black spot : upper parts of the 

 back, wings, and tail, reddish brown : lower part 

 of the back, and rump, crimson : legs pale brown : 

 the female has the head ash-coloured, and the red- 

 dish brown colour on the upper parts of the body 

 paler than the male. Inhabits New Holland. 



