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AVES. 
black spots ; wings, throat, and tail, black; upper mandible 
blackish-brown ; lower mandible straw-yellow ; legs and feet 
dusky-brown. Five inches long. Inhabits Europe. 
Fringilla car duel is. — The Goldfinch. 
Plate XLVI1I. fig. 2. 
Forehead, temples, and chin, deep-red ; ear-coverts and neck 
white; ophthalmic region, sinciput, and nape, deep black; 
lower parts of the back whitish, intermixed with yellow-brown ; 
abdomen and crissum white, tinged with wood-brown ; hypo¬ 
chondria and scapulars deep yellow-brown ; lesser wing-coverts 
black; greater coverts, lower half of quills, and tail, black ; upper 
parts of bright gamboge yellow, with a white spot at their tips ; 
tail with white longitudinal spots ; bill cream-yellow; tip with 
a brownish tinge ; legs and toes brown. Five inches and a half 
long. Inhabits Europe. 
Genus 11.—PHYTOTOMA.— Gmelin. 
Generic Character. — Bill strong, conical, edged, with the mar¬ 
gins of the mandibles serrated and equal’; nostrils basal, lateral, 
ovoid; three toes before and one behind. 
Phytotoma rara. — The White Plant-Cutter. 
Plate L. fig. 1. 
Dusky-gray above, pale-gray on the lower parts ; quills and 
tail feathers spotted with black; tail rounded. Size of a Quail. 
Inhabits Chili* 
Genus 12.—HYREUS.— Stephens. 
Generic Character. —Bill conical, thick, straight, somewhat 
serrated; nostrils ovate, basal; feet with three toes, two before 
and one behind, which is strong, with a hooked claw. 
Hyreus Abyssinicus.— The Abyssinian Hyreus. 
Plate L. fig. 4. 
Black above; head, throat, and jugulum, red; wing-coverts 
brown ; with white margins. Inhabits Abyssinia. 
Genus 13 COLIAS— Gmelin. 
Generic Character. —Bill short, thick, conical, somewhat 
