PAINTED FINCH. 
fe6t state of colour. The bill is black, ex- 
cept a little flesh-colour at the base of the 
lower mandible. The eyes are of a dark 
hazel colour ; the eye-iids, all round, of a 
fine scarlet. The head, and upper part of 
the neck, are of a very fine deep blue. The 
back is of a fine yellowish green on the upper 
parr ; the lov/er part of the back and rump is 
red. The wings have tlieir lesser covert fea- 
thers in the upper parts blue ; beneath them, a 
few orange-coloured : the row of coverts im- 
mediately above the quill-feathers, and most of 
the quills that fall next the back, are green to 
outward appearance, those parts of the fea- 
thers that are covered being dusky ; some of 
the larger quills that fall next the belly are 
%vholly dusky. The tail-feathers are of a dusky 
colour, edged with green. The whole under 
side, from the bill to the covert-feathers under 
the tail, is of a very tine red colour. Tlie 
legs, feet, and claws, like those of other rmall 
birds, are of a brown colour in alktheir suues 
-and changes^ 
" The lower bli'd in the plate is of the self- 
same species^ as the upper, but not arrived at 
it's 
