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77ac  YELLOW-HEADED              LINNET.
r     HIS Bird being of Kin to Linnets or Canary-Birds, I choofe to
call it by this Name: I have heard them  call'd Mexican Spar-
rows ; but I think it more of the Linnet-kind; the Bill is moderately
big, like the Bills of moft of our hard-bill'd Birds who crack Seeds, of
a whitifh or pale Flefh-colour ; the Eye is of a Hazel-colour; the Head
and Throat are of a yellow Colour; from behind the Eyes, down the
Sides of the Neck, are drawn brown Marks, growing wider towards their
lower Parts, and falling into the Back; the hinder Part of the Head,
upper Side of the Neck, Back, Wings, and Tail, are of a dirty Brown-
colour, fpotted on the Neck and Back with dirty Spots, drawn down-
ward; the greater or outer Quills, and the Feathers of the Tail darker
than the Back, and upper Part of the Wings; the Breaft, Belly, Thighs,
and Covert-feathers under the Tail, are of a light Clay-colour, the Breaft
and Belly fpotted, with dark brown Spots, drawn downward, which
Spots begin on the lower Part of the Yellow on the Throat the Legs
and Feet are Brown, or of a dirty Flefh-colour.
I drew this Bird at SirCharles Wager's Houfe at Parfons Green. The
Print fhews the Bird of its natural Bignefs.
A Cage of thefe Birds was found on board a Spanih Prize, taken by
an Englijh Ship in the WqeJ Indies; they are Natives of Mexico, the Ship
in which they were found being bound from Vera Cruz to Old Spain.
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