256 Mr. Vigors 's and Dr. Hors fi eld's Description of the 



The specimen of this species in our collection was procured 

 by INIr. Brown at the Bay of Inlets near the inner entrance of 

 Thirsty Sound, September 1802. 



Tribus. Coni rostr i:s. Cnv. 



Fam. FlilNGILLIDiE. 



Genus. Fkingilla. And. 



There is no group which requires more revision than the 

 extensive family of FringiUidœ. Although M. Cuvier in his 

 '■^ Règne Animal" has pointed out some well-defined divisions of 

 the family, yet there still remains such a number of species 

 belonging not merely to the Linnean Fringilla, but which have 

 indiscriminately and apparently without any decided law of de- 

 marcation been scattered by the strict followers of Linnœus in 

 his genus Loiia, that many more subdivisions must yet be 

 efiected before the whole group can be placed in an intelligible 

 and luminous order. The few species that occur in the New 

 Holland collection do not afibrd us materials or opportunity for 

 throwing any light at present upon the subject. They are 

 chiefly well-known species ; and we shall introduce them without 

 any attempt at more accurate arrangement, under the compre- 

 hensive genus Fringilla. 



1. Lath A M I. F. grisescenti-brunnca ; loris, fascia lata pectorali, 

 lateribusque abdominis nigris; horum maculis rotundis, giit- 

 ture, abdomine, crissoque albis ; nropygio coccineo. 



Fringilla leucocephala, var. Lath. 1/id. Orn. Supp. p. xlviii. 



710. 1. 



Spotted-sided Grosbeak. Id. Gen. IJist. v. p. 248. 7io. 50. pi. 89. 



It is only in a very urgent case, and where a decided inap- 

 plicability of name occurs, that we would venture to change the 



orioinal 



