GREENFINCH. 



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INSESSORES. 

 CONIROSTRES. 



FlU^GILLIDJE. 



THE GREENFINCH, 



OR GREEN GROSBEAK. 



Loxia 



chlor 



Coccothraustes 



Fringilla 



Coccothraustes 



Fringilla 



is. Green Grosbeak, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 432. 

 „ ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol.i. p. 164. 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 83. 

 ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 326. 



,, ,, Jen YNS, Brit. Vert. p. 136. 



,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 



Gros-bec verdier, Temm. IMan. d'Ornith. vol. i.p. 346. 



Coccothraustes. Generic Characters. — Beak conical, very thick at the 

 base, tapering rapidly to the point; cujmen rounded ; the commissure slightly 



