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GOLDFINCH.
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Female.
Place.
lowed by a fecond band of black; and laftly by a white one:
the quills are dufky: the tail dufky afh-colour.
This inhabits Sweden, chiefly about Weft Bothnia.
Fringilla triftis, Lht. Syfl. i. p. 320. 12.
Le Chardonncret d’Amerique, Brif. orn. iii. p. 64. 3.
“ jaune, Buf. oif. iv. p. 212.
T " de Canada, PI. enl. 202. f. 2.
~ Surinam, Defer, de Surin. vol. ii. p, 199.
American Goldfinch, Calefi. Car. i. pi. 43— Edntt. pi. 274.—^ . Zool.
Green Sparrow of Guiana, Baiter. Guiaa. p. 181. i (the female), j
B r . Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
§ I ^ E of the Linnet: length four inches and a third. Bill
white : irides hazel: fore part of the head black : the reft of
the body yellow : thighs, and tail coverts, yellowifh white * : the
wing coverts black, crofted with a band of white : quills black ;
the edges and tips of the lefler ones white: tail black : legs
white.
The female wants the black on the head : the upper parts are
olive green : throat, breaft, and rump, pale yellow : belly, and
vent, white: wings, and tail, like the male, but lefs bright.
The young bird is at firft like the female in all things, except
in having the black forehead.
Thefe inhabit North America, particularly about New Tork,
where they are fummer birds, and feed on thijiles, like our Goldfinch.
Alfo found at Surinam and Guiana, in the favannas.
• Thefe parts in Briffotdo bird were grey.
Fringilla
F I N C H.
Fringilla fpinus, Lin. Syf. i. p, 322. 25, —* Faun. Sate. 237, — Seep. amt. i.
N° 212.—Bran. 261. 262. — Mailer, N° 25.9__Kram. el. p. 366. 2.
■ Olin. uc. pi. in p. 17.—Frifch, pi. 11..—Georgi Reife, p. 174.
Turin, Br if. era. iii. p. 65. 4.—Buf. oif. hr. p. 221.— PL enl. 485. f. 3.
Silkin, Raii Syn, p. 9 Id' A. 3. — Will. orrt. p. 261. ‘pi. 46. — Br . Zool. i.
N° 129. pi. 53.—Ar3 . Zoel.
Abadavine, J ib . iii. pi. 76. .
Br. Muf. Lent. Muf,
^ I Z E of the Linnet, or rather lefs: length four inches and
three quarters. Bill white, with a black tip : top of the head
black : hind head, and all the upper parts, yellowifh olive, with
a dafh of dufky down the middle of each feather : rump yellowifh
: the under parts of the body greyifh yellow: belly whitifh :
under tail coverts ftreaked with dufky : thighs grey : lefler wing
coverts olive; the middle ones blackifh, tipped with olive ; the
greater ones the fame ; hence are formed two olive green bands :
the three firft quills are blackifh, with the inner edge brimftone-
colour; the outer edge of the fecond and third yellow green; the
others are half blackifh half yellow, edged with greenifh, and
tipped with grey : the tail is a little forked; the two middle feathers
blackifh, edged with olive; the others yellow, with the tips
black, and the edges grey : the legs are grey.
The. female has the crown of the head grey and black mixed,
and a whitifh chin; otherwife like the male, but much lefs
bright.
This bird is pretty common throughout Europe, and not unfrequent
in England in the winter feafon; but in fome years much
fcarcer than in others. During the time of its being in England,
it may be met with, mixed with the lefler Redpole, on alder trees,
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