. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . ugh not chestnut-coloured, cheek patch, the barred , and white-barred, though apparently m/Uch shorter, upper tail-coverts—this hybrid approaches the male Zebra beak appears to have been fleshy-white in colour,therefore neither resembles the coral-red beak ofthe Zebra Finch nor the pale silver-grey of BichenosFinch, but a compromise between the two. On the other hand, the forehead and eyebrow streaknearly resemble those of the father; but this .streak, of merely running behind the ear-coverts,round the sides of the neck, and across
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . ugh not chestnut-coloured, cheek patch, the barred , and white-barred, though apparently m/Uch shorter, upper tail-coverts—this hybrid approaches the male Zebra beak appears to have been fleshy-white in colour,therefore neither resembles the coral-red beak ofthe Zebra Finch nor the pale silver-grey of BichenosFinch, but a compromise between the two. On the other hand, the forehead and eyebrow streaknearly resemble those of the father; but this .streak, of merely running behind the ear-coverts,round the sides of the neck, and across the back of thethroat, just behind the eye, where it expandsinto the large cheek patch before noted, which extendsover the ear-coverts and unites with a crescentic beltpassing obliquely down the side of the throat. Thechin and throat are white, as in Bichenos Finch : but,singularly enough, some of the feathers at the sideof the breast and those of the flanks show a sub-terminal black bar, as also do the outer
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