CAGE AND SINGING 13IRDS. 105 
THE GREEN GOLDFINCH 
Is a native of the Brazils j it is mucli like the European 
species in size and figure ; the flesh-coloured beak is com- 
pressed at the sides^ and terminates with a very long- pointy 
somewhat hooked; the throat and forehead, as far back 
as the eyes, are bright red, as are the margins of the greenish 
posterior pinion feathers ; the larger pinion feathers are dark 
brown, delicately edged with dark yellow ; the vertex, upper 
part of the neck, back, and wing coverts, are yellowish 
green, and the reins ash coloured ; the breast is olive green, 
fading off into white towards the abdomen ; all the under 
part of the body is spotted with dark brown ; the rump and 
tail are red, with an ashy gray lining to the latter. The 
principal distinction of the female is a bright yellow back, 
running off into green towards the rump, and becoming^ 
ashy on the neck and vertex. 
This is a delightful songster, and one of the most beautiful 
of cage birds; with proper attention, and a diet of canary 
and rape seed, it will live for many years. 
THE ANGOLA FINCH, 
A gentle and docile bird, in size, form, and manners, closely 
resembKng the English linnet, singing as sweetly, but more 
powerfully than that well-known species. It has a gay 
plumage of red and yellow, shaded with dark brown and 
rusty gTay, spotted at the sides of the throat with white ; 
the legs and beak are a dull flesh colour. 
THE LIVER-COLOURED FINCH 
Comes from the Western Coast of Africa ; it is about the 
size of the above species, and has much the same colours in 
its plumage, only they are difl^erently arranged. Its short, 
conical, sparrow-like beak is blood red, with a black tip, and 
this is a very obvious mark of distinction. It is a very lively 
bird, with a song as soft as that of the willow wren. This 
and the Angola finch should be fed upon rape and canary 
seed. We have here enumerated the principal foreign finches 
brought into the English bird-markets ; they are all of them 
beautiful^ and most of them rare birds, not at all difficult to 
