ag8 F x N c n .
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+- SAFFRON-
FRONTED F.
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-66.
AUTUMNAL F .
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Place.
neighbouring parts*. Both this and-the laft are remarkable for
their long, which is faid to be as fine as that of the Canary-bird,
to which both thefe feem to have great affinity.
Tniigilhi.finveola, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 321, 24.
Lev. Mnf
g l Z E of a Canary-bird: general colour yellow. Bill convex,
of a pale colour, with a brown t ip : the forehead faffron-
,-colour: the back inclines to green : quills and tail edged with
■ yellow j the laft forked : legs pale.
Linnavs fays, this was in the Mufeum of M. de Geers but from
^whence it came unknown.
I find it likewife an the Lev man Mufeum, but without any
hiftory annexed.
I fufpeft that it is a mongrel bird, as one in my colleftion,
anfwering this very defcription, was given to me as the produce
,-of a Canary-bird with a Goldfinch.
-Fringilla autumnalis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 320. .13.
IS is faid to be of a greenifh colour : the top of the head
ferruginous: vent teftaceous; and the tail even at the
end.
Inhabits Surinam.s,
* Ruffel mentions the C:7ri7 being common at Aleppo, and that it is frequently
.eaten there by the French. Biß. Alep. p. 65.
Fringilla
Fringilla lepida, Lin, Syjl. i. p. 320. 14-
'J pH I S is lefs by one half than the Canary-bird. The general
colour greenifh brown : bill and eyes black; above the eyes
a fulvous ftripe, and a leffer one of the fame beneath» them ; the
chin fulvous : breaft black :■ legs grey.
This fpecies inhabits the woods about Havannah, in the ifland
of Cuba, and is eafily tamed: it is. very frequently finging„but in
fa weak a voice, as fcarce to be heard, except one is almoft cloffc
to i t.
Fringilla butyracea, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 321. z t .
Le Verdier des Indes, Brif. orn. iii. p. 195. $5*
— -------- du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PI. enl. 341. £ £*»
Le Vert brunet, Buf oif. iv. p. 182.
Chloris, or Greenfinch, Kolb, Cap. ii. p. 15^^
Indian Greenfinch, Eehv.. pi. 82^.-
C f Z E of the Canary-bird»: length four inches and a half. Bill
blackifh brown, paleft beneath : irides hazel: plumage on the
upper parts olive green : rump and under parts yellow: over, the
eye a yellow ftreak; a fmaller ftreak or two beneath the eyeand
one of green pafling through i t : the quills olive green, edged
with white: the tail, which- is forked,, yellow green :. legs
brown.
Inhabits the Eaft Indies, and is faid' to ftng exceeding well. If
this be the fame bird with that of Kolben * , he gives it the fame
* His bird had a broad bill, the back and belly grafs green, mol of the tail
feathers green, and the wings moftly black. This is the whole of hfs.
defcription.
67.
LEP1D F.
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68, YELLOW E.
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Q_q 2 charafter.