The Green Gold-Finch 
T HIS Bird is reprefented as near its natural Bignefs as I could draw it, and I 
believe, that on Companion, it will be found to be about the Bignefs of the 
common Gold-Finch. 
The Bill is pretty thick at its Bafe, and ends in a fharp Point, a very little bending 
downward, of a white or light-yellow Colour. The Fore-part of the Head all 
round the Bill, as far as the Eyes, and a little deeper on the Throat, is cover’d with 
Feathers of a fine Scarlet-Colour. The Top of the Head, and Hinder-part of the 
Neck are Afh-colour’d. The Back, Rump and Wings on their upper Sides are of a 
yellowifh green Colour; the greater Quills fomething darker than the other Feathers, 
as is common in moll Birds. The Tail is partly of a dufky Colour when fpread ; 
the Edges or Borders of the Feathers being of a Red-Wine-Colour, fo that when the 
Tail is clofed it appears Red. Below, and on the Sides of the Red on the Throat, the 
Feathers are of a light-yellow Green, which gradually becomes White on the Bread: 
and Belly. The Green on the Forefide of the Neck, and the white Bread and Belly 
are variegated with tranfverfe Lines of a dufky Colour j the Covert-Feathers under 
the Tail are wholly White. The Legs and Feet are made like thofe of other fmall 
Birds, and of a Flefh-Colour. 
This Bird I take to be an undoubted Non-defcript, but I cannot trace its native 
Country. It was when living the Property of Her Royal Highnefs the Princefs of 
Wales , and I underdand it was a finging Bird. After its Death it was duffed, and 
fet on a Pearch, by the Princefs’s Order, and fent to the curious and obliging Mrs. 
Cannon , (Midwife to her Royal Highnefs) whofe Goodnefs favour’d me with the Ufe 
of it, in order to draw it, and has promis’d to procure from the Princefs an Account of 
its native Place. 
This great, white, black, and red Butterfly is from China , and is in the Collection 
of Robert Nesbit, M. D. Fellow ofthe Royal College of Phyficians, London , and of the 
Royal Society, who favour’d me with the Ufe of it. The Head, Body, Homs and 
Legs are of a blackifh Colour: The upper Sides of the Wings are of ayellowidi 
White, except the Tips, and outer Ridges of the longer Wings, which are Black, having 
fome oblong Spots of Red or deep Orange inclofed in the Black, and fome black Spots 
and Streaks inclofed again by the red Spots. The under Side of the longer Wing is 
half White next the Body, the Remainder toward the Tip of a brownifh Colour, 
mixed or clouded a little with Dufky ; the under Side of the ihorter Wing is of a dirty 
White, or brownifh Colour, with a broken confufed tranfverfe fmall Mixture of a darker 
Brown, or dufky Colour. 
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