836 INSESSORES. PYRRHULA. Bullfinch. 



the immature bird, exhibit a fine reddish-orange. The 

 breast and belly are also of a pale orange ; and the bars 

 upon the wings become white. 



Fig. ^. The female. Natural size. 

 Female. Head and neck clove-brown, tinged more or less with 



orange. The upper parts brown, tinged with ash-grey. 

 Lower parts grey, with a slight tinge of orange. Upon 

 the wings are two transverse greyish- white bars. Quills 

 and tail blackish-grey, edged with oil-green, with a 

 tinge of orange. 

 The young birds resemble the female, except that they 

 show less of the orange tinge» 



COMMON BULLFINCH. 



Pyrrhula vulgaris, Temm, 



PLATE LIV. Figs. 1, 2. 



Pyrrhula vulgaris, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. 330. 



Loxia pyrrhula, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 300. 4. — Fauna Suec. No. 225 — Gmel. 



Syst. 1. p. 84G. sp. 4 — Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 387. sp. bQ.—Raii Syn. 



p. 86. A Will. p. 130. t. 43. 



Le Bouvreuil, Bitff. Ois. v. 4. p. 372. t. \1.—Id. PI. Enl. 245. M. and F. 

 Le Bruant ecarlate, Sonn. nov. edit, de Buff. Ois. v. 13. p. 114. 

 Bouvreuil commun, Temm. Man. d'( )rnith. v. 1. p. 338. 

 Rothburstiger Gimpel, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 55. — Meyer, Tas- 



schenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 147. 

 Bullfinch, Br. Zool. I. No. 1 10.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 353. A — Alhin. 1. 1. 59, 



60. — Lath. Syn. 2. p. 143. b\.-Id. Supp — Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 70. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. v. l.—Haye's Br. Birds, t. 37 Wale. Syn. t. 209. 



— Fult. Cat. Dorset, p. 11. — Bewick's Br. Birds, v. 1. t. p. 138 Shaw's 



Zool V. 9. p. 318. t. 52. 



Provincial — Vope^lf. 



The Bullfinch is indigenous with us, and common in all 

 the wooded districts of these islands. It is a bird of retired 

 habits, and does not associate with other kinds, being gene- 

 rally seen in pairs, or in families of five or six individuals, 

 the brood of the year, which continue together during the 



