46 BRITISH BIRDS. 



CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS. 

 SCARLET ROSE FINCH. 



(PLATE 12.) 



Pyrrhula erythrina, Pall. N. Comm. Acad. Set. Imp. Petrop. xiv. p. 587, tab. 23. 



fig. 1 (1770) ; et auctorum plurimorum Naumann, Temminck, (Bonaparte), 



(Degland $ Gerbe), (Salvadori), (Dresser}, (Newton), &c. 

 Loxia rosea, Vieill. Ois. Chant, pi. Ixv. (1805). 



Loxia erythraea, Endler 8? Scholtz, Schl. Nat. i. p. 17, pi. 5 ; ii. p. 185, pi. 77 (1809-10). 

 Fringilla erythrina (Pall.}, Meyer, Vog. Liv- u. Esthl. p. 77 (1815). 

 Coccothraustes rosea, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 539 (1817). 

 Linaria erythrina (Pall.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 554. 



Coccothraustes erythrina (Pall.), Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1003 (1823). 

 Carpodacus erythrinus (Pall.), Kaup, Natilrl. Syst. p. 161 (1829). 

 Erythrospiza erythrina (Pall.), Bonap. Comp. List B, Eur. 8f N. Amer. p. 35 (1838). 

 Hsemorrhous roseus (Vieill.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. p. 36 (1840). 

 Erythospiza rosea ( Vieill.), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xi. p. 461 (1842). 

 Propasser sordida, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Miscel. p. 84 (1844). 

 Pyrrhulinota rossecolor, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Miscel. p. 85 (1844). 

 Pyrrhulinota rosea ( Vieill.), Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Miscel. p. 85 (1844). 

 Pyrrhulinota roseata, Hodgs. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 36. 



The claim of the Scarlet Rose-Finch to be considered a British bird 

 rests upon the occurrence of two examples on our shores. The first 

 specimen was captured near Brighton, on the downs, during the last week 

 of September 1869, and was recorded by Mr. Wonfor in the ' Zoologist ' 

 for that year (p. 3918), under a wrong name, which was afterwards cor- 

 rected by Mr. Bond in the same periodical for 1870 (p. 1984). It was a 

 female, and was kept alive for some time by Mr. Swaysland, of Brighton ; 

 it afterwards came into the possession of Mr. Monk, in whose aviary it 

 lived several years. A second example, also a female, was recorded by 

 Mr. Bond in the ' Zoologist' for 1870 (p. 2383). It was taken near Caen 

 Wood, Hampstead, by a bird-catcher, on the 5th of October of that year, 

 and is now in the above-named gentleman's collection. The Scarlet Rose- 

 Finch breeds throughout North Europe and Siberia, from the Baltic to the 

 Pacific. The western limit of its breeding-range appears to be Finland, 

 the Baltic provinces of Russia, and Poland*. It passes through South 



* The statement of Sharpe and Dresser, repeated by Newton, that Naumann found this 

 bird breeding on the island of Sylt, is not strictly correct. Naumann saw a cock bird in 

 full song on the 7th of June, probably just arrived, as this bird does not reach the 

 Baltic Provinces before the second week in May, and the eggs are not laid before the first 

 week in June. An old nest was pointed out to him as the nest of the bird, and the 

 female and young were said to be in the neighbourhood: but it is not clear that he saw 

 them himself. 



