GREENFINCH. 



INSESSORES. 



CONIROSTRES. 



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FR1NGILLWJE. 



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GREENFINCH, 



CoccotJiraustes 







Fringilla 

 Coccothrausti's 

 Fringilla 



OR GREEN GROSBEAK. 



CoccotJiraustes chloris. 



chloris, Green Groslteak, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 432. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 83. 



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



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 136. 



., GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 



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



COCCOTHRAUSTES. Generic Cliaracters. Beak conical, very thick at the base, 

 tapering rapidly to the point ; oilmen rounded ; the commissure slightly arched ; 

 lower mandible nearly as large as the upper, its cutting edges inflected, and shut- 



