GENERIC CHARACTER.
Bill conic: mandibles receding from each other from the base downwards, the lower with the sides narrowed in; a hard knob within the upper mandible.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Head blue, abdomen fulvous, back green, feathers green brown.
Emberiza Ciris: capite cæruleo, abdomine fulvo, dorso-viridi, pennis viridi-fuscis Act. Stockh. 1750 p. 278 t. 7. f. 1.—Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 179.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 885.
Friagilla Tricolor, Catesby Car. 1. p. 44. t. 44. Klein. Av. p. 97. 7.
Chloris ludoviciana, Papa, Briss. 3. p. 200. 58. t. 8. f. 3.
Fringilla Mariposa, Scop. Ann. 1. No. 222.
Le Pepe Buff. 4. p. 176. t. 9.—Pl. Enl. 139. f. 1.
China Bulfinch, Albin. 3. t. 68.