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WHITE-BREASTED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla melanoleuca. ) 



Fr. nigra, fascia pectoris alba. 

 Black Finch,, with a white band on the breast. 

 Fringilla melanoleuca. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. (HO. — Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. 1. 442. 27. 



Moineau de Java. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 486.— Buff. PI. Enl. 

 224. f. 2. 



White-breasted Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 268. 23. 



The whole of the white-breasted Finch is of a . 

 black colour, except the breast, which has an irre- 

 gular white bar running across it : beak and legs 

 pale brown : length about four and a half inches. 

 Native of Java. 



