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HAWFINCH. 
also rare, more frequent in the southern countries, 
but not so much so as to enable us to say where 
its strongholds lie. Temminck states having re- 
ceived it from Japan. 
In the full plumaged male the colours are rich, 
and decidedly marked, the space between the 
eye and rictus running in a narrow line above 
the nostrils and upon the base of the maxilla, 
with an oval patch on the chin and throat, are 
deep black ; the crown, cheeks, and rump, are 
pale chestnut ; the colour palest on the forehead, 
and of a browner tinge on the rump ; a collar of 
bluish gray surrounds the nape, while the centre 
of the back and shoulder are deep umber-brown, 
shading into the tints of the collar and rump ; 
the breast, belly, and vent, are pale purplish red ; 
the axillary feathers, and under tail coverts, pure 
white ; the quills and secondaries are deep black, 
tinted with steel blue reflections ; the first four 
quills having a narrow bar of white on their inner 
webs, which is more broadly continued upon the 
same parts of the secondaries ; the ends of the 
lesser quills and secondaries are truncated, and 
have the webs elongated at the tip on the outer 
side ; the outer webs of the secondaries are loose, 
and unconnected ; the tail is short, and very 
nearly square ; the basal half of the feathers is 
black, extending on the outer feather for the 
whole length of the outer web ; the tips arc 
white, the extent of that colour being greater on 
the feathers towards the outside. In the living 
bird the bill is of a brownish pink ; but Mr 
