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PASSERINA. 299 
(The Snow Finch.) Brown, mottled with a paler tint of the 
same colour above; whitish beneath; head, ash coloured; co- 
verts of the wings, and nearly all the secondary quills, white. 
The throat of the male, black. From the ro@ks of the upper 
Alps, where it only descends in the middle of winter to the lower 
mountains. [ See App. XX of dm. Ed. | 
CarpDuE.is, Cuy. 
The Linnets and Goldfinches have an exactly conical beak without 
the least convex protuberance at any point. They live on grain. 
Those which have a little longer and more pointed beak are styled 
GoLDFINCHES. 
Fring. carduelis, L.; Enl. 4; Naum. 124, 1, 2. (The Common 
Goldfinch.) One of the prettiest birds in Europe. Brown 
above, whitish beneath; the mask of a beautiful red; a fine yellow 
spot on the cheek, &c. It is also very docile, quickly learns to 
sing and to play all kinds of tricks.(1) 
Ry 
Linartia, Bechst. 
The Linnets also have an exactly conical beak, but it is shorter and 
‘more obtuse than in the Goldfinches. ‘They feed on seeds of plants; 
those of flax and hemp in particular. 
¥ There are some species in Europe, brown, tinted with red, which 
are more peculiarly styled Linnets. The quantity of red in the young 
‘birds and females is very various, and sometimes is totally wanting. 
The beak of the first is almost as pointed as that of the Goldfinch. 
Jeise . 
Fy. linaria, L.; Le Sisserins Enl. 485, 2; Vieill. Gal. 65; Naum. 
126. (The Redpoll.) Brown, spotted with black above; two 
‘white bands across the wing; black throat; top of the head as 
* .* well as the breast of the adult male, red; the rump is sometimes 
of the same colour. A northern bird, of which it is supposed 
two races have lately been detected, a large and a small one.(2) 
Fr. cannabina, L., Enl. 485, 1; Naum. 121. (The Linnet.) 
Back, fawn coloured brown; quills of the wing and tail, black 
cristata, Enl. 181;—the Dioch (Emb. quelea) Vieill. Ois. Chant. 23;—the Dioch 
rose, 1d., 24;—Lox. capensis.. The latter begins to approach the Grosbeaks, 
To these should be added, Pyr. orythrophthalma, Wils. U, pl. x, f. 5;—P. tliaca, 
Wils. I, p. xxii, f. xiv. Am. Ed. 
(1) Add, Fr. psittacea, Lath., Syn. U, p. 48;—Fr. melba, Edw., 128 and 272;— 
F;. coccinea, Vieill. Ois. ch. pl. xxxi;—Fr. lewcocephala, Lath. Id. 26;—F*. tec 
lanica, Id. 30. 
(2) See the Mem. de M. Vieillot, nea de Turin, tom. xxiii, p. 193, et aed: 
