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BRITISH BIEDS. 



INSESSORES. 

 CONIROSTRES. 



FRINGlLLIIhli. 



THE BULLFINCH. 



Loxia pyrrJmla, 



Piirrluda vulgaris. Common, 



The 

 Bovreuil coi 



The Bullfinch, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 430. 

 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 168. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 82. 

 Sei.by, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 336. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 140. 

 Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xi. 

 nmun, Temm. Man. d'Ornitb. vol. i. p. 338. 



PvRnHULA. Generic Characters. — Beak short and thick at the base ; the 

 sides inflated and bulging ; upper mandible convex, deflected at the tip, and 

 overhanging the point of the lower one. Nostrils basal, lateral, round, more or 



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