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FRINGILLID.E. 



JNSESSORES. 

 CONIROSTRES. 



FIUNGlLLlD.i:. 



THE CHAFFINCH. 



Fringilla cwlehs. The Chaffinch, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 452. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol.i. p. 191. 

 Fi.EM. Brit. An. p. 83. 

 Selbv, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 303. 

 Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 133. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 

 Gros-hec pinson, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 357. 



Fringilla. Generic Characters — Beak straight, longer than deep, conic 

 and pointed ; mandibles nearly equal, cutting edges entire, forming a straight 

 commissure. Nostrils basal, lateral, oval, partly hidden by the frontal plumes. 

 Wings with the first quill-feather longer than the fiftli, but a little shorter than 



