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SEA-SIDE FINCH. 
by a stripe of slate blue, or fine light ash; breast ash, streaked 
with buff; belly white; vent bulf-coloured, and streaked with 
black ; upper parts of the back, wings and tail a yellowish brown 
olive; intermixed with very pale blue; greater and lesser coverts 
tipt with dull white; edge of the bend of the wing rich yellow; 
primaries edged with the same immediately below their coverts; 
tail cuneiform, olive brown, centered with black; bill dusky 
above, pale blue below, longer than is usual with Finches; legs 
and feet a pale bluish white; irides hazel. Male and female 
nearly alike in colour. 
