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Sue IN D I A N G R E E N F I N C H.
T 'HT-1 I S Bird is here figured of its full natural Bignefs; it appears
a little like a
Canary Bird, but I think it is fomething larger.
It hath a pretty thick firong fhort Bill, agreeing in Shape with moft of
the Granavo-
rious Kind of fmall Birds with us; the upper Part of a dark Brown or Blackifh
Co-
lour; the nether of a lighter Brown; the Eyes are of a Hafel-colour; the
Top of
the Head, upper Side of the Neck, Back, upper Side of the Wings, and Tail,
are of
a dirty Green-colour; the outermoft Webs of fix or feven of the greater or
prime
QjlIls are edged with White; the Tail Feathers are edged with a light Yellow
Green;
from the Bafis of the Bill on each Side there paffes through the Eyes a Bar
or Line of
dirty Green; above the Eyes, from the Bafis of the Bill, there paffes a yellow
Line on
each Side in the Form of Eyebrows; from the Angles of the Mouth on each Side
there
paffes a black Line of half an Inch long; the whole under Side, from the
Bill to the
covert Feathers beneath the Tail, is of a Yellow Colour, a little ihaded
with Green on
the Sides of the Breaff and Belly; and on the Sides of the Neck the Yellow
and Green
intermix and lofe themfelves in each other; the Legs, Feet, and Claws, agree
in
Shape with others of this Kind, all of a brownifh Afh-colour.
Mr. johbn Hawkins gave me a Sketch of this Bird, which he drew in the Ifland
of
Madeira (whither it was brought from fome other Country); the Name he has
noted
on it is Bengalas, which I fuppofe it takes from its Country; he fays it
fings finer
than a Canary Bird. As this Drawing was but flight, I did not care to make
Ufe of
it, not having then feen the Bird myfelf; but fince I received it I have
feen two of
thefe Birds, and heard them fing, at the Houfe of Mr. Blunt, Merchant, in
Good-
man's-Fields, London; I found the Birds to agree in every Thing with Mr.
Hawkins's
Sketch and Account, but having the Life before me, I added fomething to perfect
the
flight Defign I had, in order to give a more perfed one to the Public. I
was in-
formed at Mr. Blunt's, that thefe Birds were brought from the Eaft-Indies.
Dr. Henry
Plumptree, Prefident of the Royal College of Phyficians, faw thefe Birds
at Mr. Blunt's,
and was fo good to gain me Admittance to make my Obfervations on them.
The Buhtterfly here figured is of the Bignefs of Life; the upper Wings are
of a
reddifh Orange-colour; the under Wings a little more inclining to Brown;
both up-
per and under Wings bordered with a dark Brown, and Streaks of Black; the
upper
Wings have longifh dark blue Marks along their outer Edges, and a large and
finall
round Spot in each Wing, the outer Circle of each Black, the next within
Yellowifh,
the next Blue, with a light blue or white Spot in the Middle; the lower Wings
have
each a large round Spot, the outer Part Black, the next Yellow, the inner
Part Pur-
-plifh, clouded with Black on one Side, with two fmall oblong Spots of blueifh
White
in the Middle; befides this Mark there is in each of the lower Wings a little
round ob-
fcure Spot; the Body, Legs, and Horns, are of a reddifh Brown-colour; the
whole
under Side is of a dufky Brown-colour; the Spots of the upper Side only faintly
cafling
through. This Fly was brought from China by my Friend Captain Ifaac Worth,
who
?refented me with a Box of Infedts from that Country.
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