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Genus—^ GIN T H A. 
^GiNTHA Cabanis, Mus. Heine., Voi. I., p. 170, 
(after Oct. 23rd) 1851. Type (by monotypy) Fringilla temporalis 
A PLAIN-COLOURED Fiiich witli small bill and medium Avedge-shaped tail. 
The bill is shorter and weaker, the upper mandible deeper than the lower, 
the culmen ridge rather straight and showing groAvth ridges basally between 
the nostrils; the under mandible weak and triangular; the gonys straight, 
a little ascending, not angulate, the interramal space broad, feathered, and 
very shallow. 
The wing has the (apparent) first primary a little shoi’ter than the second, 
third and fourth, which are subequal and longest; the secondaries long but 
shorter than the nmth primary, the first primary very minute. 
The tail is fairly long and wedge-shaped, all the feathers narrowish but 
none attenuate, the outer feathers three-fourths the length of the central 
ones; tail-coverts, upper and under medium, about half the length of the tail 
The legs short and toes slender, but claAVS rather longer than usual. 
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