ERINGILLID.&. 



INSESSORES. 



CONIROSTRES, 



F1UNG1LL1DJ1. 



THE CHAFFINCH. 



Fringilla ccelebs. 



Fringilla ccdebs, The Chaffinch, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 452. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 191. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 83. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 303. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 133. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Gros-bec pinson, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 357. 



FRINGILLA. Generic Characters. Beak straight, longer than deep, conic 

 and pointed; mandibles nearly equal, cutting edges entire, forming a 

 straight commissure. Nostrils basal, lateral, oval, partly hidden by the 

 frontal plumes. Wings with the first quill-feather longer than the fifth, 



