GOLDFINCH. 569 



the south of Scotland, is mentioned by Sir Robert Sibbald, 

 Sir William Jardine, and Mr. Macgillivray. 



It is found in Sweden, and is said to be found also in 

 Europe from Siberia to the Grecian Archipelago. It is 

 certainly abundant in Germany, France, Provence, Spain, 

 and Italy ; it is found also at Corfu, Sicily, Malta, and 

 Crete ; Mr. Strickland says it is common at Smyrna, and 

 the Zoological Society have received specimens sent by 

 Keith Abbot, Esq., from Trebizond. 



The beak is whitish horn colour, black at the tip ; irides 

 dusky brown ; the whole circumference at the base of the 

 beak crimson red ; cheeks and ear-coverts white ; top of 

 the head black, which colour descends from the occiput in a 

 band on each side of the neck ; nape of the neck below the 

 occipital band white ; back, scapulars, and rump, dusky 

 wood-brown ; carpal portion of the wing, and the smaller 

 wing-coverts, black ; greater wing- coverts, and the outer 

 edge of the basal half of each primary, brilliant gamboge 

 yellow ; the remaining portion of the primaries, and nearly 

 all the other quill -feathers black ; the tertials with a spot 

 of white at the tip ; upper tail-coverts greyish white : tail- 

 feathers black ; the outer feather on each side with an oval- 

 shaped spot of white on the inner web ; tail in form slightly 

 forked. Chin, as before remarked, crimson red, around it 

 white ; the whole of the under surface of the body dull 

 white ; tinged on the sides of the neck, the throat, on the 

 breast, sides of the body, and on the thighs, with wood- 

 brown ; under wing-coverts white ; legs and toes pale flesh 

 colour ; claws brown. 



The whole length of the bird is five inches. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing, two inches and seven- 

 eighths : the first, second, and third quill-feathers, nearly 

 equal in length, the first rather the longest; the fourth, 

 one-eighth shorter than the third. 



