FRINGILLIDJE. 



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have a slight crest on the head, which they have the 

 power of elevating : the top of the head, in the male, 

 the lores, the throat, the breast, and a line down the 

 middle of the belly, are black : the cheeks are white : 

 the sides of the breast and the flanks are reddish- 

 yellow : the yellow on the latter and the ventral line 

 are tinged with clear maroon ; of which colour are 

 the abdomen and under tail-coverts : the tail-feathers 

 of equal length, white at their base, and black for the 

 rest of their length : the upper parts are of a pure ashy- 

 grey : the wings are black, but all their coverts are 

 deeply edged with ashy-white. The female has the 

 crest and the feathers of the head snuff-colour : the 

 upper parts of the plumage are whitish-red, variously 

 tinged : the under and the cheeks ashy-red : the wing- 

 feathers and part of the tip of the tail are dusky-brown : 

 the beak is dusky, and the legs yellowish. 



Sp. 7. Fr? sanguinirostris. 



Loxia sanguinirostris, /3. Steph. v. ix. p. 256. — Africa. 



Sp. 8. Fr } Capensis. 



Emberiza Capensis. Steph, v. ix. p. 372. — Southern Africa. 



Sp. 9. Fr.> Borbonica. 



Emberiza Borbonica. Steph, v. ix.^. 416. — Bourbon. 



GENUS CLVIIl.— PASSER, Brisson. SPARROW. 



Rostrum capite angustius, 

 breve, lateratim compres- 

 siusculum, subarcuatum, 

 apice paulo obtusum. 



Beak narrower than the head, 

 short, slightly compressed 

 laterally, slightly arched, 

 its tip a little obtuse. 



Pyrgita^ Cuvier. 



