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ANGOLA FINCH. 

 (Fringilla angolensis.) 



TFr.JuscO'Chierea, fusco maculata, subtus spadicea, capistro gttlaque 



nigris, genis guttureque albo maculatis, uropygio luteo. 

 Brown-ash Finch, spotted with fuscous ; beneath chesnut; capis- 



trum and throat black, the latter and cheeks spotted with 



white ; rump yellow. 

 Fringilla angolensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q19.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1.460. 88. 

 Linaria angolensis. Briss. Sup. 8 1 . 

 Vengoline. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 80. 

 Linnet from Angola. Edwards. 129. 

 Angola Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 309. 78. 



Size of a Linnet : beak brown ; the feathers at 

 the base black : the upper parts of the head, neck, 

 and breast, dusky-ash, with the shafts of the fea- 

 thers darker: cheeks, and sides of the throat, 

 white ; greater wing-coverts and quills brown, 

 with yellow margins: under parts of the body 

 dull orange : rump and upper tail-coverts bright 

 yellow : tail brown, with grey edges : legs flesh- 

 colour. Edwards describes the female as having 

 the upper parts of the body rufous brown ; the 

 shafts of the feathers darkest : sides of the head 

 pale rufous : near the base of the beak a brown 

 streak, which passes towards the hinder part of the 

 head : from the breast to the belly pale rufous, 

 with brown spots : the rest of the plumage similar 

 to the male : it is probably only a variety of 

 the male, as he says it sings remarkably well, 



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