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Linaria flavirostris, Macg. i. p. 379. 



Fringilla flavirostris, Gray, p. 99. 



Linota montium, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 569 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 596 ; 



Gould, iii. pi. 50. 

 Linota flavirostris, Newton, ii. p. 160 ; Harting, p. 28 ; Dresser, 



iv. p. 59. 

 Mountain Linnet, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 521. 



Flavirostris = yellow-billed, from flams + rostrum. 



A winter visitor to the eastern and southern parts of Eng- 

 land. In the midland counties, and thence northward to 

 Shetland and in Ireland it is found throughout the year. 

 It breeds in various countries of Northern Europe, south of 

 the Arctic Circle; in autumn it visits most parts of the 

 continent down to the Mediterranean. 



Subfamily LOXIIN.E. 

 Genus CARPODACUS, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 161 (1829). 



Carpodacus = fruit-biting, from fcaprros + 



Carpodacus erythrinus. ROSY BULLFINCH. 



Pyrrhula erythrina, Pallas, N. Comm. Ac. Sci. Imp. 

 Petr. xiv. p. 587 (1770). 



Pyrrhula erythrina, Naum. iv. p. 418; Newton, ii. p. 172. 

 Carpodacus erythrinus, Gould, iii. pi. 43; Harting, p. 112; 

 Dresser, iv. p. 75. 



Erythrinus = epvOplvos, a kind of red mullet mentioned by Aristotle, H. A. 

 iv. 11, 8; from epvOpos = red. 



This species has occurred once near Brighton and once 

 in Middlesex. It breeds in Finland, and is found throughout 

 the Russian Empire, visiting India and China in winter; it 

 is only a wanderer to Western Europe. 



