PAINTED FINCH. 
it's perfe£l colours. The hill asid eves are as 
in the above, but without red eye-lids. The 
bird appears to be wholly blue: hut, on a near 
view, the head is of a finer blue than the body 
and coverts of the wings ; which are not so 
deep, and a little tini£lured with grten. The 
greater feathers of the wings, and the tail- 
feathers, are dusky edged with blue without 
side, and ash-coloured within o 
" So that this bird, in it's first state, resem- 
bles a Hen Sparrow ; ii's second^ is blue ; and 
it's last, as the first described: Vv'itu m:any in- 
termixed stages, between each of the.se./' 
In describing his second plate, Edwards say?? 
— " I'he upper figure, wliich represents the 
Cock Bird, has tlie^ bill short, thick at it's base, 
ending in a point, and of a dusky colour. The 
eyes are of a hazel colour. The head and 
hinder part of the neck, are of a very beauti- 
ful blue. The throat and breast are red which 
red gradually becomes an orange colour on the 
belly, and still more yellow on the covert- ■ 
feathers beneath the tail. The back is cf a 
light yellow green. The rump, or coyert-= 
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