320 



B U L F I N C H. Class II. 



of apples, and are faid to divide an apple with one 

 flroke of the bill to get at the contents. Linn^us * 

 fays, that the upper mandible of this bird is move- 

 able ; but on examination we could not difcover its 

 flru6lure to differ from that of others of the genus. 

 It is an undoubted fa6t, that thefe birds change 

 their colors ; or rather the fhades of their colors : 

 that is, the males which are red, vary at certain 

 feafons to deep red, to orange, or to a fort of a 

 yellow : the females which are green, alter to dif- 

 ferent varieties of the fame color. 



Ii6. BuL- Le Pivclne. Belon a<z-, 359. 

 FINCH, Afprocolos, ohf. 13. 



Rubicilla, five pyrrhula. Gef- 



ner anj, 733. 

 Aldr. a'V. li. 326. 

 Ciufolotto. Olina^ 40. 



PL enl. 145. 



Monachinc, Sufolotto. Zinan. 



58. 

 Loxia pyrrhula. Lin.fyji. 300. 

 Domherre. Faun, Suec . fp . 



225. 



Bulfinch, Alp, or Nope. Wil. Gumpl. A'r^w. 365. Gimpl. 



orn. 247. Scopoli, No. 202. 



Rail. fyn. a'V. 86. Danis Sc Kor^vegis Dom-pape, 



Blutfinck, Frifchy I. 2. quibufdam Dom-Herre. Br. 



Le Bouvreuil. Brijfcn au. III. 240. 



308. Br. Zool. ic6. plate U. f. 3.4. 



THE wild note of this bird is not in the leil 

 mufical j but when tamed it becomes re- 

 markably docil, and may be taught any tune after 

 a pipe, or to whiftle any notes in the jufteft man- 

 ner: it feldom forgets what it has learned; and 



Faun, Suec, fp* 224. 



will 



