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secondaries and coverts nearly wood brown, but 

 darker in the middle. The tail has the centre 

 feathers edged with wood brown, and the outer 

 edge of the outer feather, with the half of that of 

 the next, white. In the adult male, the forehead 

 is yellow, bounded behind with a black band 

 terminating on each side with some narrow black 

 feathers, elongated, which can be raised at will, 

 and which have obtained for this bird one of its 

 appellations, Horned Lark, (A. cornuta.) The 

 lores, cheeks, and throat in the form of a crescent 

 band, are deep black, and the chin, sides of the 

 neck, and a streak above each eye, are of a pale 

 but rich king's yellow ; beneath the black gular 

 band, the breast is hyacinth red, varied with 

 blackish brown, the sides of the breast are of 

 the same colour, and the flanks are wood brown, 

 having the centre of each feather darkest. The 

 belly, vent, and tail coverts are white. 



In our next sub-family, the Bullfinches or 

 Pyrrhulince, the typical forms are very different 

 from the birds we have now left ; but there is a 

 genus of Africa and India, Pyrrhulauda, or Lark- 

 Bullfinch, which, as the name indicates, combines 

 characters of both. In the form of the True 

 Bullfinches, the head is large, the bill short, and 

 very broad at the base, at the same time of very 

 considerable strength, and in these the principal 

 food seems to be the tender bark or young shoots, 

 and the buds of trees. Others attack the seeds 

 of trees, and in one genus we have a remarkable 



