[ £33 J 
GOLD-FINCH; 
Defc ription and Character * 
I T is fomething larger than the Canary-Bird, 
and is a fixaight handfome /hap’d bird, -has 
a ftraight fliarp ath-coloured bill, and the eyes 
of a hazel colour. The length of a full grown 
bird, from the tip of the bill to the point of the 
tail, is five inches and a half, of which the lat- 
ter is two, and the former little more than, 
half an inch long ; when in flefh it weighs a- 
about an ounce. 
This bird is every where in this kingdom well 
known, and highly efteemed, both forfingisg, 
and the elegancy of its colours, being certainly 
the molt beautiful and fined feathered of all 
cage-birds*, a ring of- curious fcarlet- coloured 
featners encompafs the fore -part of his head, 
or balls of the bill, and from the eyes to the 
bill on each fide is drawn a black line, the jaws 
or cheeks white, the top of the head black, from 
which a broad black line is extended on both 
fines, almoft to the neck *, the hinder part of 
me tread is white; the neck, and fore-part of 
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