The Pied Chaffinch.
Numb. LIV.
TH E Bill of this Bird from the Point above half
way was of a rediih Colour with a Stripe of a blueiih
lead Colour round the upper and under Mandible, towards
the Bafe red; the Eyes black, the Irides white, the Eye-
Lids black; ¡the whole Head and Neck white, round the
lower Part was a treble Collar, the firft blueiih lead Colour,
then white, then blue fucceeding the white; the
Back rediih brown fpotted with greenifh yellow ; the
Breaft and Belly of the fame Colour, with a large fcol-
loped Mark of blueiih Colour down the middle of the
Breaft. . .
The Wings were white with a faint tmdlure of greemlh
yellow, intermixt with a few black Feathers; the Tail
was made up of twelve Feathers, the two outmoft of
which on each Side was .white, the two next to them
black', the middle ones white ; the Legs and Feet of a
rediih flelh Colour.
This Bird I faw in the PofleiTion of Mr. Noble, who
told me it frequented his Brother’s Garden at Havering
Power in EJfex, where he uled to feed it a long time,
before he could take it.