FRIZZLED FINCH. 
Though we have copied the excellent 
figure of this bird from Edwards, we have 
not, as we generally do, adopted also the name 
under which he describes it. He calls it the 
Black and Yellow Frizzled Sparrow; and 
drew his figure of the natural size, from the 
living- bird, which was the property of Mrs. 
Clayton, of Flower, in Surry. 
It is the Fringill'a Crispa, of Linnaeus, and 
of Brisson ; and the Pinson Frise, or Frizzled 
Finch, of BufFon. 
Very little seems to be known about it, 
even by Edwards; yet Lis description, short 
as it is, appears to haye furnished all the ma- 
terials for that of BufFon, which is somewhat 
longer than any other. 
Edwards tells us, that the bird had never 
before,, as he believes, been either figured or 
described. It was, he says, a native of either 
Angola or the Brasils, but he could not de- 
termine 
