GREEN GOLD FINCH. 
FrINGELLA MELBA. 
Le Chardonneret VERD. 
Le Chardonneret verd, ou le 
Maracaxao. 
Green Gold Finch. 
Lin. Syst. i . p. 3 19.8. 
Bris. cm. App. p. 7 0. 
Buff. ois. iv. p. 211. 
Edw. p. 2 7 2. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 2 8 6. 5 2. 
This very pleasing bird inhabits China, and also is met with at the 
Brazils, where it is called Maracaxao, by the Portugueze. 
In size it is rather larger than the common Gold Finch, which it very 
much resembles in form and manners. 
The bill is flesh colour, conical, slender towards the end, and very 
sharp pointed ; the forepart of the head and throat, and a little behind 
the eyes, is a rich red, or scarlet ; the space between the bill and eye is of 
a bluish ash colour ; the hinder part of the head, neck, and back, are of 
a yellowish green; the wing, coverts, and secondaries, are greenish, 
margined with red ; the great quills dusky, the superior coverts and tail 
of a bright red , the inferior coverts pale ash-colour ; the breast is olive- 
green, and by degrees grows fainter, until it becomes intirely white on 
the belly ; all the under part of the body being striped transversely with 
broken dusky lines. The legs and feet are pale brown. 
The female differs from the male in having a pale yellow bill, the top 
of the head and neck cinerous ; the wings, rump, and back, a yellowish- 
green, without any tint of red; the quills of the tail brown, margined 
with dull red. 
