TAB. XXIV. B.
F R I N G I L L A CYANOCAPILLA.
C H A R A C T E R GENERICUS.
Roflrum conicunij re£tum, acuminatum. LIN. SYST. NAT. p. 3 I 7.
C H A R A C T E R SPECIFICUS, &c.
Fnngilla grifea, fubtus flava, vertice uropygioque cKruleis, occipite rubro marginato, remigibus
caudaque fufcis.
G E N E R I C CHARACTER.
Bill conic, ftrait, lharp-pointed. LIN.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER, 8ic.
Grey-brown Finch, yellow beneath, with crown and rump blue, hind-head bordered with red,
wing-feathers and tail brown.
Blue-crowned Finch. LATH. 2. p. 319.
THIS beautiRil bird, which IS an extremely rare ipecies, is the blue-crowned Finch of IVIr.
Latham, who, in his Synopfis of Birds, quotes no other fynonyms than the name given in
the prefent work. The length of the bird is about feven inches: the bill dulky-brown: the
crown of the head blue, bounded behind by red, and a whitiih fpace appears round the eye:
the hind part of the neck, and back, are of a pale fubferruginous brown: the lower-back and
nimp blue: the under parts of the body chiefly yellow: the middle and larger wing-coverts
edged with white: the quills and tail black: the legs pale brown. It is a native of Senegal.
fMi^ica&r.