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and is composed of twigs, moss, and slender roots. The eggs, 

 four or five, are nine and a half twelfths long, seven and a 

 half twelfths in breadth, bluish- white, spotted and streaked 

 with purplish-grey and reddish-brown. 



Coal-hood. Red-hoop. Tony-hoop. Alp. Pope. Nope. 



Loxia Pyrrhula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 338. Pyrrhula vulgaris, 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. i. 338. Pyrrhula pileata, Common 

 Bullfinch, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 407. 



GENUS LXIX. CALAMOPHILUS. PINNOCK. 



Bill short, rather slender ; upper mandible with the dor- 

 sal line considerably convex, the sides also convex, the edges 

 thin, toward the end arched, without notch, the tip narrow 

 and declinate ; lower mandible with the angle rather nar- 

 row, the dorsal line almost straight, the edges inflected, the 

 tip narrow. Tongue slender, trigonal, obliquely truncate and 

 lacerate ; oasophagus enlarged into a crop ; stomach muscu- 

 lar, with dense rugous epithelium ; intestine of moderate 

 length ; coeca very small. Nostrils small, round, concealed. 

 Eyes of moderate size. Ear roundish, rather large. Head 

 ovate, moderate ; neck short ; body rather slender. Feet of 

 moderate length ; toes moderate ; claws rather long, arched, 

 compressed, acute. Plumage very soft, blended ; wings short, 

 rounded ; first quill extremely small ; second a little shorter 

 than third and fourth ; tail very long, graduate, of twelve 

 weak rounded feathers. 



137- CALAMOPHILUS BIARMICUS. BEARDED PINNOCK. 



Male with the head light greyish-blue, the general colour 

 light red ; the wings variegated with black and white ; mys- 

 tachial bands of elongated lanceolate feathers, and lower tail- 

 coverts, black. Female lighter, with the head merely tinged 

 with grey, no mystachial bands, and the lower tail-coverts 

 light red. Young like the female, but with the head and back 

 black. 



Male, 6^, 7i, 2, ,L, T T , T ,, ft. Female, 6J. 



This beautiful bird, which has by authors usually been re- 

 ferred to the genus Parus, but which I think, judging from its 

 digestive organs, must belong to the Huskers, is said to be ex- 

 tensively dispersed over the Continent, inhabiting the marshy 

 borders of rivers and lakes, In England it is found chiefly 



