AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. 
1 HIS bird is the Fringilla Tiistis, of Lin- 
naeus ; the Carduehs Americana, of Klein and 
Brisson ; and the American Goldfinch, of 
Catesby, Edwards, Pennant, and Latham. 
Buffon, however, after observing that all those 
who have mentioned the bird give it the appel- 
lation of the American Goldfinch, remarks that 
the term would not be proper till it were ascer- 
tained that no other Goldfinch existed in the 
New World: and this supposition, he adds, 
is not only improbable, but absolutely false ; 
for the Green Goldfinch, or Maracaxao, 
which is the Fringilla Melba of Linnaeus, and 
the Carduelis Viridis of Brisson, is a native 
of Brasil. He has, therefore, adopted ano- 
ther name^ which charadterizes it's plumage; 
and calls it the Chardonneret Jaune, or Yellow 
Goldfinch : a name of which we cannot alto- 
gether disapprove, though wc have not thought 
it necessary to adopt it ; having taken the name, 
with the figure, of Kdwards, who etched it on 
the plate iiiunediately from the living bird. 
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