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ilniu, wi.ere it is met vvirlrin flocks, anJ iskdown by (lie 
name of miorahee. It feeds on the feed of a plant called 
rtuk, which has a yellow flower, and tlie feed produces 
an oil, in much ufc vvitli ihe monks. 
loS. l''rin,<Tilla ultramarina, the ultramarine finch : fize 
of a’canary, hut lias a rounder liead ; bill while; plumage 
wholly of a fine deep ultramarine blue; legs red. 'I’he 
young birds and females are grey. The males get tlie 
blue plumage in the (pring of the fecond year ; but the 
female ever remains of a Ample grey colour. This alfo 
inhabits Abyllinia, and is faid to liave a fine fong. 
109. Fringilla Syriaca, the Syrian finch : a fize larger 
thanthe linnet ; bill thi^k, (hort, and of lead-colour; 
top of the head fine bright red ; cheeks, throtit, and fore¬ 
part of the neck, black, mixed with brown ; the red of 
the neck, bread, upper parts of the body, and leder 
wing-coverts, brown, dufky, and yellow, mixed ; the 
greater wing-coverts deep adi-colour, edged Vv-ith paler ; 
quills and-tail the fame, but edged with bright orange; 
belly and vent dirty white, marked with obfeure yellow 
and dufky fpots ; legs lead-colour. This fpecies is found 
about Tripoli, in Syria ; it is a bird of padage, and fings 
very finely. We are indebted for thefe tliree lad fpecies 
to tlie late celebrated Abyflinian traveller, Mr. Bruce. 
110. Fringilla crifpa, the frizzled fparrow : fize of a 
cliaffinch ; bill white ; the head and neck black ; the up¬ 
per parts of the body, wings, and tail, deep olive; the 
under parts yellow ; legs-brown ; the feathersof the body 
all frizzled, as is foraetimes feen in poultry. This fpecies 
inhabits Angola and Brafil. The Portugeufe call it bcco 
de prala. 
111. Fringilla Indica, the Indian finch: length five 
inches and three-quarters ; bill and head black ; round the 
bill and eyes, and the throat, white, paffing round the 
neck as a collar ; on the lower piart of the neck before, a 
black bar; tlie red of the under parts are rufous white ; 
the upper parts cinereous brown, paled on the rump ; 
the wing-coverts are black, fringed with glolfy rufous; 
greater quills black ; tail and legs cinereous browui. In¬ 
habits India. 
112. Fringilla ocliracea, the oker finch: fize of a 
chaffinch; bill and legs yellow; general colour of the 
plumage white, except the head, fore part of the neck, 
bread, and wing-coverts, which are more or Id's of the 
colour of yellow oker. This was deferibed from a living 
fpecimeii in an aviary, faid to have been caught in 
Aiidria. 
113. Fringilla tedacea, the tedaceous finch : length 
five inches and a half; bill pale red ; irides black ; liead, 
neck, and back, ferruginous, mottled with black ; bread 
and belly tlie fame, but paler ; wings and tail brown ; 
legs fledi-coloiir. N-itive of Lufitania. 
114. Fringilla imperialis, the imperial finch: fize of 
the Amadavad finch ; length three inches and a half ; bill 
dufky red ; crown, and all the under parts of the body, 
yellow ; the upper parts pale ferruginous rofe-colour ; 
quills and tail dufky; legs pale dufky red. Inhabits 
China. 
115. Fringilla Aiidralis, the rtidy-collared finch : ge¬ 
neral colour of the plumage brown, with a ferruginous 
or riidy grey collar. Inhabits Terra del Fuego. 
FRI'O, a fmall idand on the coad of the Brazils, fitu- 
ated in 32° 2' foiith lat. and 41° 31' 45" wed Ion. The 
land of Frio is high, with a hollow in the middle, which 
gives it, at a didance, the refemblance of two feparate 
iflands. The pafTage between the idand and the continent 
is about a mile broad,- and feemed to fir Eraf'mus Gower 
to be clear from fhoals. 
FRI'O, a river of Spain, in the province of Grenada, 
which runs into the fea, near Toros. 
FRIP'PERER, y. \(romfrippier, Fr.] One who deals 
in old things vamped up. 
FRIP'PERY,/. \_fripptrie, Vr. fripperia, Ital.] The 
place where old clothes are fold.—Lurana is a frippery of 
bankrupts, who fly thither from Druina to play their af- 
(er-game. Howd. —Old clothes ; caft dreflTes; tattered 
rags.—Ragfair is a place near the Tower of London, 
where old clothes ‘awA fripfe'y are fold. Pope. 
The fighting-place now feamens ragefupply, 
And all the tackling is .n frippery. Donne. 
FRISCH (John Leonard), a writer in natural hidory 
and lexicography, born at Sulzbach, in the Upper Pala¬ 
tinate, in 1666, and dudied at AUdorff,' Jena, and Salz¬ 
burg. After travelling through France and Swillerland, 
lie fucceeded tlie evangelical preacher, Elias Breithoni, 
at Neufol in Hungary, but was driven thence by perfecu- 
tion, and became an interpreter during the Turkifh war. 
From Hungary he went to Venice and other parts of Italy ; 
and in 1^93 was fuperintendent of a nobleman’s eftate 
near Nuremberg. He next vifited Holland, after which 
he fettled at Berlin, wliere he was appointed reftorof the 
Grey Convent Gymnafuim in 1726. By the recommen¬ 
dation of Leibnitz, whom he indrudfed in the Ruffian 
language, he was chofen a member of the royal academy 
of fciences, and of the imperial academy of tlie fearches 
into nature. He died at Berlin on the 21 d of March, 1743. 
Frifch has perpetuated his name by being the founder of 
the filk maiuifaflory in the niarche of Brandenburg, 
about the beginning of the lad century : he was the fii ft 
perfon who cultivated mulberry-trees in the neighbour- 
of Berlin, where he formed a plantation of tliem, hiso'.vii 
property, which was attended with the bed fuccefs. He 
conceived an idea alfo that the church-yards in the city 
and adjacent villages might be planted with thefe trees to 
great advantage ; and this plan was recommended, in 
1718, by Frederic-William 1 . He rendered great fervice 
to the German language by his dictionary. Fie wrote 
alfo in his native tongue a defeription of all the infetls of 
Germany, of which thirteen parts were publidicd, and 
wliicli dill merits the approbation of natiiralids. -The 
principal works of this author are: i. Deutfck-lateinifches 
Wortcrbuch, &c. a German and Latin Dictionary, with 
the-Etymology of the Words partly edablidied, and part¬ 
ly conjeCtniMl, and critical Annotations, Berlin, 1741, 
2 v'ols. 4to. 2. Didtionnaire nouveau dcs Pafdgers, Frani;ois~ 
Allanand, & AUemand-Fratifois, Lciplic, 1712,' Svo, 
This iifefnl book iias gone through a great iiiany edition”;. 
3. Befchrdbring von alkrley Infckttn in Dcutfchland, &c. 
Defeription of all tlie German InfeCts, vviih Obferva- 
tions, and the neceilary Figures, &c. thirteen p.-.rts, Ber¬ 
lin, 1720-1738, 4to. with 273 plates, making two quarto 
volumes. A new edition was publiilied, at Berlin, 176C- 
1779, 4to, with plates. 4. Vorfellung dcr Vdgd in Deut.fcfi- 
land, und beitdufig auch einger tremden, &c. Reprelenta. 
tion of tlie Birds of Germany, with a few of foreign Coun¬ 
tries, coloured after Nature, &c. This w'ork was pub- 
lidied at Berlin by the author’s fon ; and is edeenied by 
connoid'eurs,'on account of the accuracy with which tlie 
plates are coloured. It contains twelve grand cLid'e;-, 
which occupy 355 plates and 179 pages of defeription. 
Frifch wrote the deferiptions of the four fird claffes only. 
■ FRISCH HAFF, a gulf, or arm of the fea, on tliecoalt 
of Pruffian Pomerania, fouth of the Baltic ; about twen. 
ty-five miles in length from ead to wed, and eight from 
north to (oiith. The Oder palTes through it at the eadern 
extremity. 
FRISCH FIAFF, a bay, or arm of the fea, between 
Konigfberg and Elbing, feparated from the Baltic by a 
tongue of land, called Frifch Nerung ; about eighteen 
leagues in length, and hardly two in breadth. It com¬ 
municates with the Baltic by a narrow pafTage, near Pil- 
law. 
FRISCH NE'RUNG, a narrow flip of land, in Pruffia, 
which lies between the Baltic and the Frifch Haff; twen¬ 
ty-fix miles long, and hardly two wide. 
FRISCH'BACH AL'LEN, a mountain of Stiria : ten 
miles ead of Pruck. 
ToFRISE, or Frizzle, v.a. [frifer, Fr.] To drefs 
by crifping. This is confined to the hair of the head. 
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