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CAPSA FINCH. 

 (Fringilla-capsa.) 



Fr. rufo-grisea, facie gidaque alba, alls caudaque nigris, cauda 

 Jbrficata. 



Reddish-grey Finch, with the face and throat white, wings and 



tail black, the latter forked. 

 Fringilla capsa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 912. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



440- 20. 



Le dattier. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3.487. 

 Capsa Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 205. 1/. 



Size of the House Sparrow : beak short and 

 thick ; the upper mandible black, the under yel- 

 lowish : fore-part of the head and throat white : 

 rest of the head and upper parts of the body grey, 

 inclining to red, especially on the breast : wings 

 black, reaching two- thirds the length of the tail, 

 which is also black, and forked : legs yellowish. 

 Inhabits Abyssinia and Barbary : is common about 

 granaries/ assembling in flocks: it is said to have a 

 very fine and agreeable note, much superior to that 

 of the Canary, or Nightingale, but dies on being 

 transported from its native place : it is also com- 

 mon about the Date villages. 



