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BLUE-FACED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla tricolor.) 



Fr. nigra, capite uropygioque cyaneis, humeris viridihus, abdomine 

 jlavescenie. 



Black Finch, with the head and rump blue, shoulders green, and 



abdomen flavescent. 

 Fringilla tricolor. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 323. 34. — Gmel. Syst, 



Nat. 1.923. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 464. 101. 

 Blue-faced Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 3 IS. 91. 



The Blue-faced Finch has the forehead, tem- 

 ples, and throat, blue : base of the beak, and back 

 black : shoulders green : quills black, the pri- 

 maries green on the outer edge : under parts of 

 the body yellowish white : tail black. Inhabits 

 Surinam. 



