ANGOLA FINCH. 
La Linotte d’Angola. 
La Vengoline. 
Linnet from Angola. 
Angola Finch. 
Briss. Orn. Suppl. 8 1 . 
Buff. Ois. iv. p. 80 . 
Edw. pi. 129 . 
Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 3 09. 
No 7 8. 
This bird is a native of Angola, a kingdom in Africa, situated between 
the equinoctial line, and eighteen degrees of south latitude. In size and 
character it very much resembles our linnet. 
The male is called Nigral, or Tobaque, by the Portuguese; the female, 
Benguelinha ; and it is ranked among the finest warblers of that country. 
It is also mentioned by the Honourable Daines Barrington, in the Philo- 
sophical Transactions, under the character of the Vengoline, as excelling 
in point of song, all the birds of Asia, Africa, and America, the mocking 
bird only excepted. 
Edwards has described it, and is inclined to think his subject is the 
female of the Nigral ; but as the females in general seldom have any song, 
and this bird is allowed to have a remarkable fine one, it is very natural to 
suppose that the bird described by him was a male, although it had not 
arrived at its full plumage. 
