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FRINGILLA CCELEBS. THE CHAFFINCH. 



PINK. SPINK. TWINK. BEECH-FINCH. HORSE-FINCH. SHELLY. SHELL- 

 APPLE. SHILFA. CHAFFY. BREAC-AN-T'SIL. 



Fig. 58. 



Pringilla Coelebs. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 318. 



Fringilla Coelebs. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 437. 



Chaffinch. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Gros-bec Pinson. Fringilla Coelebs. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 357. 



Chaffinch. Fringilla Coelebs. Selb. Illustr. I. 303. 



Fringilla Coelebs. Chaffinch. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 133. 



Male with the upper paH of the head and the hind-neck grey- 

 ish-hlue ; a black hand on the forehead^ the hack reddish-hroicn ; 

 the rump yellowish-green ; the fore-neck and breast purplish-red. 

 Female with the upper part of the head and the back light grey- 

 ish-brown^ the rump yellowish-green^ the breast pale yellowish- 

 grey. Young similar to the female^ but with the tints paler. 



Male. — The Chaffinch, which is one of the most famihar, 

 as well as beautiful birds of the Passerine family, presents no 

 remarkable peculiarity of form, it being merely, like many 

 others, a neat and lively little bird. The bill and digestive 

 organs being precisely as described in the generic character 

 already given, it is unnecessary to say more here respecting 

 them than that the oesophagus is two inches long, the intestine 

 eleven and a half, the coeca nearly two twelfths, the rectum 



