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BRAZILIAN FINCH. 

 (Fringilla granatina.) 



Fr. corpore ritfescente, rostro rubro, temporibus uropygio abdo- 



mineque violaceis, cauda cuneiformi. 

 Finch with a rufescent body ; red beak ; temples, rump, and 



abdomen, violet; tail wedge-shaped. 

 Fringilla granatina. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 31Q- 11. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 906.— Briss. 3. 21 6. 67. t. Q.f. 3.— Lath. Ind. Orn, 



1.463.97. 



Le Granadin. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 169. t. 7./. \.—Buff. PL 

 Enl. \OQ.f. 3. 



Brasilian Finch. Edwards. 191. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3.316. 87* 



This beautiful Finch is in length near five 

 inches : its beak is of a fine red, with the base 

 above blue: sides of the head blossom-coloured 

 violet: irides dark-coloured: eyelids scarlet: back, 

 quills, and scapulars brownish : the rest of the head 

 and body, (the throat, lower part of the belly and 

 thighs, which are black, excepted,) chesnut : rump 

 blue: tail black: legs grey: varies in having a spot 

 of brown between the beak and eye, and the hinder 

 parts of the body, above and below, violet ; there 

 are other slight varieties described : female with 

 the top of the head, throat, and under parts fulvous, 

 the latter palest : beneath the eyes a slight purplish 

 tinge: the lower part of the belly and vent whitish: 

 back grey brown : the rest similar to the male, 

 but duller. Native of Brazil, and is often kept in 

 confinement for its song. 



