300 AVES. 
edged with white; whitish underneath; a fine red on the head 
and breast of the old male; beak, grey. Builds among the 
vines, bushes, &c. 
An intergediate species, most nearly auiea however to the 
second, Fring. montium, Gm., Naum. 122, is occasionally seen 
‘from the North. Its beak is yellow, and there is some red on the 
rump of the male. 
There are other species, more or less: greenish, which are called 
by the French Serins or Tarins. The 
Fring. spinus, L.3 Tarin commun; Enl. 485, 3; Naum. 125. 
(The Siskin.) Also has a beak more like that of the Goldfinch, 
and is even similar in many points to the Redpoll. It is of an 
olive colour above; yellow beneath; calotte, wings and tail, black; 
two yellow bands on the wing. It builds on the very summits of 
the tallest pines. 
The other species have the shorter beak of the Linnet. 
Fring, citrinella, L.; Le Venturon; Enl. 658, 2; Vieill. Gal. 625 
Naum. 124, 3, 4. Olive above; yellowish beneath; back of the 
head and neck ash coloured. 
Fring. serinus, L.; Le Cini; Enl. 658, 13 Naum. 123. ‘Olive 
above; yellowish beneath; spotted with brown; a yellow band 
the wing. Two birds from the mountains of the south of Eure 
about the size of the Fr. spinus. © . be , 
Fring. canaria, L. En]. 202, 1. (The Canary Bird. Dreskks larger, 
and the facility with which it breeds, in a state of confinement, 7 
together with its melodious and powerful song, shave dissemi, 
nated it every where, and caused it to vary so much in colour, ' 
that it is difficult to ascertain its original hue, It mixes with 
most of the other species of this genus.(1) 
‘ ; ’ 
(1) Among the birds foreign to. Europe, which cannot be distinguished from the 
Linnets by any generic character, we place, Fring. lepida;—F'r. tristis, Enl. 202, 
2;—Fr. ictera, Enl. 364;—Fr. nitens, Enl. 224;—F. senegalla, Vaill. Ois. ch. pl. 
ix;—F. amandava, Eni. 115, 2 and 3;—F. granatina, Enl. 109, 3;—F: bengalus;— 
F. angolensis, Enl. 115, 1;—Carduelis cucullata, Swains. Zool. Ill. There are other 
species also, called astrils, bengalis and senegallis, in the work of Vieillot, entitled 
Ois. chant. de la zone torride, such as the Fr. bicolor, pl. ix;—Fr. tricolor, pl. xx;— 
cinerea, 6;—cxrulescens, 8;—melpoda, 7;—viridis, 4 3—erythronotos, 14 ;—quinticolor, ses 
15;—rubriventris, 13;—frontalis or Loz. frontalis, L. 16;—F. guttata, 3;—ad "i 
Fring. melanotis, Temm. Col. 151, 1;—Fr. sanguinolenta, Ib. 2;—Fr. polyzona, ¥ ,. 
3;—Fr. otoleucus, Tem. Col. 269, 2, 3;--#'r. simplex, Lichtenst. Col. ee — 
lutea, Col. 365;—Fr. ornata, Pr. Max. Col. 208. The pretended Emberiza oryzt 
vora, Enl. 388, has also the same beak; but the stiff and pointed quills of the ‘ail 
distinguish it. 
See also the numerous Finches described | by M. Ch. Bonaparte, Ann. of New 
York Lyc. Il, December 1826, p. 106, et seq. [See App. XXT of Am. Ed.) 
