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PYRRHULA 



PILEATA. THE 

 BULLFINCH. 



COMMON 



BULLFINCH. ALP. POPE. NOPE. TONY-HOOP. RED-HOOP. COAL-HOOD, 

 OR COALLV-HOOD. DEARGAN-CHOILLE. 



^m 



Fig. 68. 



Loxia Pyrrhula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 338. 



Loxia Pyrrhula. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 387. 



BuMnch, Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Bouvreuil coramun. Pyrrhula vulgaris. Temm. Man. d'Orn, L 338. 



Common Bullfinch. Pyrrhula vulgaris. Selb. Illustr. I. 336. 



Pyrrhula vulgaris. Common Bullfinch. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 140. 



Male with the upper part of the head^ a hand round the base 

 of the lower mandible^ the wings^ upper tail-coverts, and tail, 

 bluish-black, the back ash-grey, the rump white, the lower parts 

 bright red. Female with the same parts black, the hack brownish- 

 grey, the lower parts dull yellowish-brown. 



Male. — In this species the bill is remarkably short and 

 bulging, all its outlines being convex, and the decurved tip 

 of the upper mandible not much exceeding that of the lo^Ye^. 

 The head is large, the neck short, the body ovate, and mode- 

 rately stout. The upper mandible is broadly and deeply concave 

 within, its two lateral grooves for the reception of the edges of 

 the lower mandible very distinct. The tongue is very short, 

 fleshy, oblong, concave above. The oesophagus, which is two 



