FRINGILLA CALEBS. 
CHAFFINCH. 
Generic Character. aS^-^ Fringilla domeftica. 
Synonyms. 
Fringilla celebs. Lin. Syfl. i. p. 318. 3. M, 
Orn, 1. p. 437- 12. 
Chaffinch. Br, Zool 1. 125. lb. fol 108. tah, 5. 
/f* 2, 3. ^r^. 2./>. 381. F. 
Z^//^. 3 ^. 257. 10. lb,/upt. 
p 165. Mi?/2/. Or;/. D/^. /^o/. 1. 
Bewick's Br. Birds^ Pt. \, p. 178. 
TThE Chaffinch weighs nearlyan ounce, is five inches 
in length and nine in breadth ; the female is rather fmaller, 
and weighs two drams lefs than the male, her colours are 
confiderably duller, the upper parts are generally of a dull 
olive green, the bread very dulky white ; the white marking 
on the wings are alike in both fexes. 
Few birds are more generally known than the prefent, as 
its haunts are generally confined to the vicinity of our habi- 
tations ; it is ufually efteemed a very unwelcome gueft in 
gardens, feeding on mod kinds of feeds and fruit ; it is parti- 
cularly injurious to our cherry orchards, as it greedily devours 
the fruit in all ftages, from the time it fets till it ripens ; in 
winter it aflbciates with its affinities in the farm-yard, where 
it picks up fuch feed as may be fcattered by the flail ; in 
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