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BLACK AND ORANGE FINCH. 

 (Fringilla melanictera.) 



Fr. nigra, abdomine alio maculato, alis caudaque Jerrugineo 

 marginatis. 



Black Finch, with the abdomen spotted with white ; wings and 



tail margined with ferruginous. 

 Fringilla melanictera. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 910. — Lath. Jnd. 



Orn. 1. 442. 26. 

 Moineau de Macao. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 486.-— Buff. PL 



Enl. 224. f. 1. 

 Black and Orange Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 268. 22. 



The black and orange-coloured Finch is four 

 inches and a half in length : the beak is pale 

 brown : prevailing colour of the plumage deep 

 black, with the margins of the wings and tail 

 orange-coloured : belly spotted with white : legs 

 pale brown. Native of Macao. 



