GREEN GROSBEAK OR GREENFINCH. 2/3 



has been added to its geographical range ; but 

 from the notes of Temminck, and the account 

 which Kitlitz gives of its habits, we suspect that 

 the species, as well as several others, when more 

 closely examined, will be found to be distinct in 

 the different countries. 



In the female the upper parts are more tinted with 

 brown, and the yellow of the rump and breast is 

 not so vivid. In the young the feathers are 

 streaked along the centre with a darker shade of 

 oil green, and there is little yellow on any part of 

 the plumage. 



From these birds of powerful structure, both 

 as regards their body and the bill, with its accom- 

 panying bones and muscles, we pass through 

 many foreign genera having no British represen- 

 tative, and arrive at those of more slender form. 

 The first to be noticed is the Goldfinches or 

 Siskins, Carduelis, Briss. which, although hitherto 

 kept in one genus under the above scientific title 

 of Brisson, have each a family dress as it were, 

 which, in popular language, at once suffices to 

 distinguish them. We possess one example of 

 each, and the characters may be given as fol- 

 lows: 



CARDUELIS, Briss. Generic characters. Bill 

 rather lengthened, compressed, attenuated, 

 and sharp at the point ; the edges of the 

 mandible very slightly sirmated, and bending 

 Towards the tip ; wings lengthened, pointed, 

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