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D e sc r ip t ion.
F emale.
Place*
RED-FACED F.
D escription.
Place.
Fringilla melba, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 319. S.^O/hech Voy. ii. p. 329.
Le Chardonneret verd, Brif. ortt. App. p. 70.
---------- —■ ■ , ou le Maracaxao, Buf. oif. iv. p. 211.
Green Goldfinch, Ed<w. pi. 272. {the male.) 128. {thefemale).
S1 Z E of our Goldfinch. Bill flelh-coloured : the fore part of
the head, and throat, of a bright red: between the bill and
eye blueilh alh-colour; the upper parts of the bird are yellowilh
green : the wing coverts, and fecondaries, greenilh, with red margins
: quills dulky : the breaft is olive green, changing into
white on the belly and under the tail j all beneath variegated
with broken dulky tranfverfe lines : the rump, and tail, bright
red j the laft even at the end : legs pale brown.
The female has a pale yellow b ill: top of the head, and neck,
alh-colour: bafe of the wings, and rump, yellowifh green, inltead
of red: the tail brown, edged with dull red. In other things not
unlike the male, having the red face, as in that fex.
This is faid to inhabit China * and Brajil f .
Red-faced Finch, Brown's III. pi, 25.
J ^ E N G T H near fix inches. General colour of the plumage
deep dull green : cheeks tinged with crimfon : prime quills
dulky, with dull orange edges : tail dull crimfon : legs yellowilh.
Inhabits Angola.
• Linnaeus, , f Lä-iVafdl.
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