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BLUE-CROWNEl) FINCH. 

 (Fringilla cyanocephala.) 



Fr. rubro-fusca, vertice uropygioque cyaneis, subtus Jlava, nucha 



rubra, orbitis albis. 

 Red-brown Finch, with the crown and rump blue, under parts 



yellow, nucha red, orbits white. 

 Fringilla cyanocephala. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q24. — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1.464. 104. 

 Blue-crowned Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 319. 94. 



This bird inhabits Senegal : it is seven inches in 

 length : the beak is dusky : the crown of the head 

 blue, bounded with red behind : cheeks white : 

 hind part of the head and back reddish brown : 

 quills black ; middle and greater coverts margined 

 with white ; lower part of ?he back and rump pale 

 blue : under parts of the body yellow : thighs and 

 vent white : tail black : legs pale brown. 



