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BLUE-BELLIED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla benghalus.) 



Fr. dilute ccerulea, capite dorsoque griseis, lateribus capitis purpureis. 

 Pale caerulean Finch ; head and back grey; the sides of the 

 head purple. 



Fringilla benghalus. Lin, Syst. Nat. 1. 323. 32. male. — Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. 1. Q20.—-Lath. Ind. Orn. 1.46l. 91. 

 Fringilla angolensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 323. 31 . female. 

 Bengalus. Briss. 3. 203. 60. t. 10. f. 1. 



Le Bengali. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. Q2.—Buff. PI. Enl. 115. 



Blue-bellied Finch. Edwards. 131. female. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 

 310. 81. 



Length near five inches : beak whitish : irides 

 hazel: head, and upper parts of the body, grey; 

 on each side of the former, behind the eyes, a 

 lunulated purplish red spot : quills brown, with 

 grey edges : lower part of the back and rump, 

 and all the under parts of the body, blue ; tail the 

 same, but paler: legs whitish: female without the 

 reddish spot on the sides of the head. This species 

 is liable to a few slight variations, which are scarcely 

 worth description, as the above will apply to all. 

 Native of Africa, 



