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YELLOW FINCH. 
Fringilla Butyeacea. 
Le Verdier des Indes. 
Le Vert Brunet. 
Indian Greenfinch. 
Yellow-Finch. 
Lyn. Sysl. i. ft. 3 2 1. 22. 
Bris. Om. iii. ft. 195, 55. 
Buff. Ois. iv. ft. 182. 
Edxv. ii. ft. 8 4. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. ft. 299. No. GS. 
This subject is given the size of life ; it is rather larger and more bulky than 
the Canary bird. It is found in India and at the Cape of Good Hope, at 
which place it is more common than the Green-finch is with us. 
The bill is conic, slender towards the end, and sharp pointed ; the upper 
mandible dusky brown, the lower lighter; the irides are hazel. 
The whole upper part of the plumage is a dull olive green, a line of the 
same colour passes from the basis of the bill through the eye ; above and 
beneath the eye is a line of yellow; from the angles of the mouth there is a 
black line in form of a mustachio. 
Fhe quills are olive green, edged with white; the whole underside, from 
the tin oat to the covert feathers under the tail, are yellow, and slightly 
tinged with green; the tail is a little forked, and margined with yellow- 
green. 
It nas a very bold, lively, active bird, and had a most agreeable song. 
