PAINTED FINCH. 
Of this most curious and beautiful bird, Ed- 
wards has published no less than four different 
figures. In his History of Birds, he repre- 
sents, from stuffed specimens, the Male Painted 
Finch, as it appears at different periods: and, 
in his Gleanings, he gives, also, a figure of the 
Cock Painted Finch, in it's state of perfe61:ion, 
drawn, from the living bird ; together with the 
Female, taken likewise from life. 
These four figures are given on two plates. 
The, descriptions of them, published by Ed- 
wards, are as follow—- 
'* These birds," says he, speaking of the 
first plate, " are both the same ; the one not ar- 
rived at it's perfe6l colour, and the other per- 
fe6t. Their fiirst appearance of colours, when 
they are young, is very plain ; being of a dark 
brownish colour on their upper~sides, andUgliter 
on their under sides, with a tindiure of greenish 
yellow. 
** The upper bird in the plate is in it's per- 
fea 
