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’The Greater Bull-Finch. 
B eing at a LoE to find a Name for this Bird (not knowing its 
Country) I at length pitched upon the above, it refembling the 
Bull-finch fomething in the Thicknefs of its Bill, and the Colour of its 
Throat and Breaft. It is here figured of its natural Bignefs. 
The Bill is pretty thick toward the Head, a very little arched on the 
upper Part, ending in a Point, all over of a White-colour : The Top 
and Sides of the Head, upper Part of the Neck, Back, Wings and Tail, 
are all of a dark Brown or Black-colour, all the Feathers being edged 
with a lighter Brown, which makes an agreeable Mixture : The Throat, 
under Side of the Neck, Breaft, and Belly, are all of a very fine Scarlet- 
colour; the upper Part of the Wing, and a little Way down its Ridge, 
for a fmall Breadth, is of the fame Red-colour as the Breaft ; the In- 
fides of the Wings are Dusky ; the Thighs, lower Belly, and covert 
Feathers under the Tail, are of a black Brown-colour : It hath a fhort 
Tail in Proportion ; the Legs, Feet, and Claws, are of a light Brown;, 
it has four Toes on each Foot, ftanding after the ufual Manner. 
Mr. Blew, Librarian to the Inner-Hemple, London, obliged me with 
this curious Bird, and fome others ; but having pafled through feve- 
ral Hands before they became his Property, it could not be known from 
whence they came; yet I am of Opinion that it is iioxa. America, be- 
caufe there were feveral Birds that came with it to Mr. Blew, which I 
knew to be Americans^ 
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