GREEN GROSBEAK OR GREENFINCH. 271 



Doubleday states, that in the breeding season it 

 becomes deep blue. In the female the colours 

 are less marked, and blend more into each other, 

 while the black markings are less in extent, and 

 are scarcely so deep in tint. In a young speci- 

 men procured on the Continent, the black on the 

 throat is not apparent ; the upper parts are yel- 

 lowish brown, darker on the back, and having 

 the tips of the feathers with darker undulated 

 bars ; under parts yellowish white, on the breast, 

 belly, and flanks, spotted with crescent-formed 

 marks of pale umber-brown. 



THE GREEN GROSBEAK, OR GREENFINCH, 

 COCCOTHRAUSTES CHLORis, Flem. Loxia chloris, 

 Will. Linn. Fringilla chloris, Temm. Cocco- 

 ihraustes Moris, Flem. Selby, and modern British 

 ornithologists. Chloris flavigaster, Swain. - 

 Greenfinch, Grosbeak of British authors. Al- 

 though Mr Swainson has placed this species as a 

 sub-genus of Linaria, connecting that form with 

 the Hawfinches, we have, nevertheless, placed it 

 following the latter, and have not, for the present 

 at least, adopted the sub-genus Chloris. In form 

 it approaches most closely to Coccothraustes, and 

 in its general habits it has also a very near alli- 

 ance ; as an intermediate form it may still connect 

 Linaria, without entering it as a sub-genus, some 

 of its modifications or sub-genera being still im- 

 perfectly known. 



The Greenfinch is very generally distributed 



