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ERINGILLID^E. 



INSESSOKES. 



CONIROSTRES. 



FRINGILLID^E. 



THE GREENFINCH, 



OR GREEN GROSBEAK. 



Coccothraustes chloris. 



Loxia, chloris, Green Grosbeak, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 432. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 164. 



Coccothraustes ., FLEM. Brit. An. p. 83. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 326. 



Fringilla JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 136. 



Coccothraustes GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Fringitta Gros-bec verdier, TEMM.Man.d'Ornith.vol.i.p.346. 



COCOOTHRAUSTES. Generic Characters. Beak conical, very thick at the 

 base, tapering rapidly to the point ; culmen rounded ; the commissure 



