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PYRRHULINJE. 



and peculiar form in the mandibles of the bill, 

 being crossed over each other. They are mostly 

 arboreal in their habits, and many of them fre- 

 quent extensive and retired woods. The genus 

 we have first to notice is, 



PYRRHULA, Brisson. Generic characters. 

 Bill short, thick, and swelled, or inflated in 

 all its parts, wide at the base, edges of the 

 mandible folding over the maxilla, culmen 

 rounded ; wings with the third quill longest, 

 second and fourth equal, first slightly shorter ; 

 tail ample, sometimes lengthened ; feet with 

 the tarsus and middle toe nearly equal. 



Type. 1. P. vulgans, 2. erythrocephala. 



Form compact, stout. Europe, Asia. 



