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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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THE Scarlet Rose Finch (Carpodacus erythrinus, Linnaeus) 

 is an extremely rare visitor to the British Islands. It in- 

 habits the Palearctic Region, and is found westward in 

 Europe to Finland and Poland. In Western Europe it 

 is a mere straggler. The adult male has the back brown, 

 washed with rose ; wings and rectrices, pale brown, mar- 

 gined faintly with crimson ; rump, crimson ; under parts 

 below breast, white, shading into creamy white on under 

 tail-coverts ; crown of head, chin, throat, and breast, 

 crimson, the crown being the darkest ; irides, legs, and feet, 

 brown ; bill, brown tinged with yellow. Length, about five 

 inches. The adult female is, above, mostly olive-brown ; 

 wings and rectrices, dark brown; innermost secondaries 

 margined with whitish, and coverts tipped with whitish ; 

 fore-neck and breast, buffish, with streaks of dusky; belly, 

 white. 





