FRINGILLA.] AVES INSESSORES. 133 



two outer feathers white on their inner webs : irides brown : bill and feet 

 flesh red. (Female.) Smaller ; the yellow on the throat, and round the 

 eyes, paler ; breast spotted with brown ; the rest of the under parts red- 

 dish white : above, as in the male bird, but the colours not so deep, and 

 the spots on the head and nape larger, and more numerous. (Egg.) Pale 

 reddish white, streaked and speckled with purple brown. 



Only two examples of this species have hitherto occurred in this 

 country: the first taken near London many years ago, and described 

 by Brown, Lewin, and others, under the name of the Green-headed 

 Bunting* ; the second killed near Manchester, in November 1827. Said 

 to build in bushes, hedges, or among corn, and to lay from four to five 

 eggs. Food grain and insects. 



(6.) E. Ciris, Linn. Syst. Nat. torn. i. p. 313. Painted Finch, 

 Edwards, Nat. Hist. pi. 130. Gleanings, pi. 273. Painted Bunt- 

 ing, Lath. Syn. vol. n. p. 206. 



A single individual of this species is recorded by Montagu (Orn. Diet. 

 Supp. Art. Grosbeak- White-Winged.) as having been taken alive on Port- 

 land Island, in the year 1802; but considerable doubts are entertained, 

 whether it had not escaped from some vessel going up channel. It is a 

 native of some parts both of N. and S. America. 



GEN. 29. FRINGILLA, Linn. 



(1. FRINGILLA., Cuv.) 



91. F. Ccelebs, Linn. (Chaffinch.) Head and nape 

 grayish blue : back and scapulars chestnut brown, tinged 

 with olive; rump greenish. 



F. Coelebs, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 357. Chaffinch, Mont. Orn. 

 Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 303. pi. 54. f. 4. & 4*. Bew. Brit. Birds, 

 vol. i. p. 188. 



DIMENS. Entire length five inches eleven lines: length of the bill 

 (from the forehead) five lines, (from the gape) six lines and a half; of 

 the tarsus nine lines ; of the tail two inches seven lines ; from the carpus 

 to the end of the wing three inches three lines : breadth, wings extended, 

 ten inches. 



DESCRIPT. (Male in Spring.) Forehead black; crown of the head, and 

 nape, deep grayish blue: back and scapulars chestnut brown, with a tinge 

 of olive-green ; rump greenish yellow : cheeks, throat, and neck, reddish 

 brown ; breast and Hanks the same, but somewhat paler ; lower part of 

 the abdomen white : lesser wing-coverts white ; those of the primary 

 quills, and the bastard wing, entirely black; secondary coverts black, 

 tipped with primrose-yellow : the three first quills black, edged exter- 

 nally with yellowish white; the rest of the primaries, and all the se- 

 condaries, with a white spot at the base, with part of the inner web 

 white, and with a portion of the outer web edged with pale yellow : 

 the two middle tail-feathers ash-gray; the others black; the two outer 

 ones on each side having a large white spot on the inner web: bill 

 bluish ; the tip black : feet brown. In Winter, the colours are paler ; 

 and the feathers on all the upper and under parts tipped with ash-gray. 

 (Female.) Head, nape, back, and scapulars, pale olive-green, tinged with 

 cinereous brown : cheeks, and under parts, cinereous white : the trans- 

 verse bars on the wings not so distinct as in the male bird : bill yellowish 



* See some remarks on this subject by Mr Yarrcll. in Zool. Joiirn. vol. in. p. 498. 



