l62 CLASS AVES. 



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lives in the same manner as the crossbill. It is red 

 or reddish ; the feathers of the wings and tail are 

 black, bordered with white. 



Loxia Flamengo (Sparm. Mus. Carl. pi. 17?) 

 appears to me to be but an albino variety of the 

 enucleator. 



Loxia Psittacea of the Sandwich Islands, Lath. 

 Syn. II. pi. XLII. or Psittacirostra Icterocepliala. 

 Temm. col. 457, does not appear to differ from the 

 hardbills, but by a little greater elongation of the re- 

 curved point of its bill. 



The north of the globe also possesses species ap- 

 proximating to these, of equally fine colours, some 

 individuals of which occasionally arrive as far as 

 Germany. 



Ctimson-crowned Fmch.hsLth. Lowia Erythrina. Pall. 

 Fringilla Flammea. Linn. Naum. 113. 1. 2. 



Plumage above, wings, and tail, brown ; rump, upper 

 and lower tail-coverts, and beneath, rose-colour. 

 Sweden. 



Rosy Finch. Lath. Lowia Rosea. Pall. Naum. 113. 

 3. Fringilla Rosea. Gm. 



Head, neck, and throat, red ; nape and back, reddish- 

 ash ; beneath, white ; breast and sides, red-tinged. 

 Siberia, &c. 



Purple Finch. Lath. Fringilla Purpurea. Gm. 

 Wilson. Am. Orn. i. pi. 7- f 4. 



General colour of the plumage, crimson, with a tinge 



