3*8 F I 'N ;C II. 89.
BROWN-
THROATED F
D escription.
Flach.
90.
FIRE ■ F.
D escription.
'Female.
-Place.
9!.
BLUE-FACED
F.
D escription-
Place.
^ I L L red crown of the head green: from the eyes a line of
white, palling backwards : throat pale brown beneath a
patch of alh-colour; then a fpot of pale red : the back ferruginous:
rump and went green : wings -dulky : on the lower part
o f the quills a yellow fpot: tail half yellow half black: legs
yellow. b
•From China.
Fire Bird, Brown. Illuji. pi. 2.
.Lev. Muf.
g I Z E of the fmaller Redpole. Bill dufky; bafe yellowiflr:
the general colour of the plumage a gloffy brownilh redj
vent rather darkeft: quills dulky: tail the fame, rather cuneiform
: legs pale flelh-colour.
The female is of a pale reddilh brown: the forehead, and between
the eyes, crimfon: tail reddilh ; lhaped likejhat of the
.male, with the end dulky.
-Inhabits Gambia, in Africa.
1 Fringilla tricolor, Lin. Syft. i. p. 323. 34.
American. Sparrow of Seba, Bancroft. Gnian. p. I-Zz.
^ H E forehead, temples, and throat, are blue : region of the
noftrils black: the back black: Ihoulders green: under
parts yejlowilh white: quills black j the prime ones green on the
outer edge : tail-black; -even at the end.
Inhabits Surinam. Bancroft’& bird had the breaft of a lively
blye.: .the rump.deep green: the wings and tail purpliih black»
92.
BLUE-HEADED1-
F.
Fringilla cserulea, mento, gulä, alarum ball, döriique parte antica nigris,
N. C. Petr. xi. p. 434. pi. 13; f. 6v
Le Demi-fin noir & bleu, Buf. oif. v. p. 327,
g I Z E of the greater Einnet. Bill brown head - and neck
blue: between the eyes, acrofs the forehead, a narrow black
line: chin and’;throat Black : acrofs the upper part of the back a
lemicircle of black : wing coverts,.lower part of the bade, and-
rump, blue: breaft,, belly,- and vent, bluer quills blackilh
brown, edged with blue,, appearing, green in fome lights tail
e,ven ; brown black: legs brown.
E N G TH - four inches.- Bill red : crown, of the head pale
blue: hind part of the neck, throat, breaft, and under tail
coverts, red4, belly pale alh-eolour: back, and lelfer wing coverts,
purplilh: greater coverts green: lower part of the back,
and rump, yellow: quills-and tail blue : legs red.
Inhabits China: I'faiw this among fome fine Cbinefe drawings,
inr-pofleffionof the- late Dr. Fothergilll
D e s c r i p t io n .
93-
AZUREHEADED
F.
D escription-
P l a c e .
94.
Fringilla cyanoccphala, Miller’s Plates. -N°- 24- BLUE-
^ CROWNED F.
J J^ENGTH feven inches. Bill dulky: crown of the head D escription.
blue, .bounded behind with red ■: round the eye white: hind
part of'the neck,. and back, pale reddilh brown: lower-part of
the back, and rump, pale blue : under parts of the body-yellow :
thighs and vent white: middle and greater coverts margined
with white : quills and tail black: legs pale brown.