584 PASSERIFORMES CHAP. 
tospiza, Lophospingus,and Tiaris have fine crests; Catamblyrhynchus 
exhibits stiff crown-feathers. The feet are usually dull, but ocea- 
sionally pinkish, as in Lmbernagra and Pycnorhamphus ; the bill 
may be blackish, yellowish, dusky, or even red, as in Cardinalis 
(except one form). Of British species, the Greenfinch (Ligurinus 
chloris), the Goldfinch (Carduelis elegans), the Sparrow (Passer 
domesticus), the Chattinch (Fringilla coelebs), the Brambling (¥. 
montifringilla), the Linnet (Linota cannabina), the Redpoll 
(Aegiothus rufescens), the Bullfinch (Pyrrhula europaea), the 
Fic. 143.—House-Sparrow. Passer domesticus. x. (From English 
Illustrated Magazine.) 
Reed-Bunting (Hmberiza schoeniclus), the Corn-Bunting (Z. 
miliaria), and the Yellow Hammer (Z. citrinella) hardly need 
description ; while several others occur more rarely in our islands 
or breed with us in limited numbers, such as the Hawfinch 
(Coccothraustes vulgaris), which is bay, black and white; the 
Siskin (Chrysomitris spinus) and the Serin (Serinus hortulanus), 
which are chiefly greenish-yellow ; the Pine-Grosbeak (Pyrrhula 
enucleator) and the Crossbill (Lowia curvirostra), which are 
mainly red in the adult male, and respectively yellow and 
greenish-orange in the female; the Ortolan Bunting (Lmberiza 
hortulana), which is brown, green, and yellow; and the Snow- 
Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), with its black, chestnut, and 
