256 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. HonsrrELp's Description of the 
'The specimen of this species in our collection was procured 
by Mr. Brown at the Bay of Inlets near the inner entrance of 
Thirsty Sound, September 1802. 
Tribus. CoNIROSTRES. Cuv.. 
Fam. FRINGILLIDE. 
Genus. FRINGILLA. Auct. 
There is no group which requires more revision than the 
extensive family of Fringillide. Although M. Cuvier in his 
* Régne Animal" has pointed out some well-defined divisions of 
the family, yet there still remains such a number of species 
belonging not merely to the Linnean Fringilla, but which have 
indiscriminately and apparently without any decided law of de- 
marcation been scattered by the strict followers of Linnæus in 
his genus Loria, that many more subdivisions must yet be 
effected before the whole group can be placed in an intelligible 
and luminous order. The few species that occur in the New 
Holland collection do not afford us materials or opportunity for 
throwing any light at present upon the subject. They are 
chiefiy well-known species ; and we shall introduce them without 
any attempt at more accurate arrangement, under the compre- ` 
hensive genus Fringilla. 
1. Laruamiı. F. grisescenti-brunnea ; loris, fasci latá pectorali, 
lateribusque abdominis nigris; horum maculis rotundis, gut- 
ture, abdomine, crissoque albis ; uropygio coccineo. 
Fringilla leucocephala, var. Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. xlviii. 
2 MO. 1. 
Spotted-sided Grosbeak. Id. Gen. Hist. v. p. 248. no. 50. pl. 89. 
It is only in a very urgent. case, and where a decided inap- 
plicability of name occurs, that we would. venture to change the 
original 
