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 THE OEIENTAL BULLFINCH. 



PYERHULA GRISEIVENTRIS, LAFR, 



Description. — Length six inches. 

 Bill small, black, and very convex. 



Male. — Crown, nape, and chin black. 

 Cheeks and ear coverts pink, Upper 

 parts blue gray. Rump white. Tail 

 and wings black. The greater wing 

 coverts are broadly tipped with gray. 

 Under parts gray washed with pink. 

 The amount of this pink washing varies 

 quite considerably. 



Female. — Shehas theupper half of the 

 back gray, the lower half brown. There 

 is very little pink on the face, and none 

 on the lower surface of the body, which 

 is a dark lavender gray. 



Distribution. — Eastern Siberia, north 

 China, and Japan. A winter visitant 

 in the Yangtse Valley. 



The male of the Crimson Finch 

 (Carpodacus erythrinus), another rare 

 migrant in the Yangtse Valley, is 

 readily recognised by its dull crimson 

 crown, nape, throat, and breast, and 

 the crimson washing of the brown 

 upper, and the yellowish brown lower 

 parts. The female is streaked brown 

 above and below, with very little or 

 none of the crimson of the male. 



THE TREE SPARROW. 



PASSER MONTANUS (lINN.) 

 Description. — Length five and one 

 half inches. Bill black. Tarsus light 

 brown. Iris brown. 



Crown of the head and nape uni- 

 form chocolate brown, cheeks and 

 ear coverts white, the latter with a 

 large black patch. Throat and fore- 

 neck black. Back reddish tawny, with 



