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part of wing, fine citron. This bird, which varies 

 much, nestles in the thickest forests, and comes into 

 the plains only in winter. 



Tlie Snow Finchy Fring. Nivalis. Brisson III. xv. 1. 

 Naum. 117. 



Brown, speckled ; with a clearer shade above ; 

 white underneath ; head, ashen ; the wing-coverts, 

 and almost all the secondary quills, white ; throat, 

 black in the male. It nestles in the rocks of the 

 high Alps, from which it descends only in the depth 

 of winter to the inferior mountains.* 



The Linnets and Gold-Finches. Carduelis. 

 Cuv. 



have the beak exactly conical, without being swollen 

 out in any point. They live on grains. Those are 

 particularly named gold-finches which have the bill a 

 little more long and sharp. 



The Coimnon Gold-Finch. Fring. Carduelis. 

 L. Enl. 4. 



One of our handsomest European birds ; brown 

 above, whitish underneath. The masque of a fine 

 red ; a beautiful yellow spot upon the wing, &c. 



* To these have been added the following : — 



FringlUa cinerea. Swan 

 Eniberiza l/orbonica,[}\. Enl. 521. 2. 

 Embeiiza Braziliuisis pi. Enl o21 I. 



