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V ar. A.
Le Bouvreuil noir, Brtf.orn. iii. p. 31 oif. iv. p. 384«
Black Bulfinch, Albin. iii. pl. 69.
Lev. Muf
D escription. H I S variety is wholly black, often met with fo naturally,
at other times changing in confinement in a cage ■ f.
S *
V ar. B.
Le Bouvreuil blanc, Brif. orn. iii. p. 313.—B i f oif. iv. p. 383.
Lev. Muf.
D escription. h p H I S variety is white, except a few fpots of black on the
back. One in the Leverian Mufetm is wholly white. Befides
which are two other varieties : the fird is a male, and has the
top and fides of the head of a beautiful white, with a tinge of
blofiom-colour j the under parts pure white : quills and tail
black. The other a female, with the crown, wing coverts,
rump, and vent, white : in other things as in common.
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WHITEWINGED
GR.
Loxia panicivora, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 302. N8 13.
Le Bouvreuil noir d’Afrique, Brif. orn. iii. p. 31-7. N° 4.—Buf. -oif iv. p. 385.
D escription. g I Z E of the Hawfinch: length feven inches and a quarter.
Bill half an inch, grey : the eyes black, as is the whole
plumage, except a fpot of white on the wing coverts : the legs
are afti-coloured.
Place. Inhabits Africa.
* .Mr. Pennant. if Efpecially i f fed with hemp feed.
Loxia
Loxia Angolenfis, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 303. N° 24^
Black Grofbeak, Edvu. pl. 35 2. f. 2.
g I Z E of our Bulfinch : length five inches. Bill dufky : eyes
dark : the general, colour of the plumage black, except from
the bread to the vent, where it is of a dull red, and a fpot of
white on the middle of the wing near the edge ; the ridge of:
the wing is alfo white: legs-of a purplilh Hefti-colour.-
Inhabits Angola*
y JEN G T H fix inches. Bill ftout, and horn-coloured, one
inch long : head ahd chin dulky brown : back and wing-
coverts black, the feathers deeply margined with yellow: bread
deep ferruginous; from thence to the vent - rudy yellow, very
pale at the vent: quills and tail dufky,, edged with yellow ; the
lad even at the end : legs pale.
In the mufeum of M.' Titnfial, ETq.;
Le Gros-bec de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 199.
C I Z E of the Hawfinch. Bill and irides yellow : the head
black: hind part of thev neck dirty brown, the fore part'
grey : wing coverts. blueifti black j,about the middle a fpot of
white : the fecond quills black, bordered with white on the
inner web : the prime quills black for two-thirds, and white
from thence to the end: the rump grey: the tail black : the
belly pale rufous ■: vent white: legs yellow.
V ol. II. U.
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ANGOLA GR.
D e s c r i p t io n .
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P l a c e .
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BROWNHEADED
GR.
D escription.
GREY-NECKED
GR.
D escription.
The