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LAZULI FINCH. 



Fringilla amcena, Bonap. 



PLATE CCCCXXIV. Female, Fig. 1. 



The Female of this species has been described along with the male, 

 at p. 64 of the present volume. 



CRIMSON-NECKED FINCH. 



Fringilla frontalis. Say. 



PLATE CCCCXXIV. Male. 



This species was first described vmder the name of Fringilla fronta- 

 lis, by Mr Thomas Say, who discovered it in the course of Long's 

 Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. It was afterwards figured and 

 described in the continuation of Wilson's American Ornithology, by 

 the Prince of Musignano, who then considered it as belonging to the 

 genus Pyrrhula, but who has since placed it in a small group, to which 

 he gives the generic appellation of Erythrospiza. It is very closely 

 allied, not only in colour, but in size and form, to the Purple Finch, 

 Fringilla purpurea, with which one might at first sight readily confound 

 it, but from which it differs in having the bill somewhat more bulging, 

 with convex outlines, and in several other characters, such as the more 

 elongated and less emarginate tail. For the specimen from which the 

 figure has been taken I am indebted to Mr Gould of London. It is 

 reported to be from California. I have not met with this species, and, 

 in as far as I know, its habits have not been described. 



Fringilla frontalis, Say, in Long's Expedition, voL ii. p. 40. 

 Crimson-necked Bullfinch, Pyrrhula frontalis, Ch. Bonajia/rte, Amer. Or- 



nith. voL i. pL 1, fig. 1, 2. 

 Crimson-fronted Bullfinch, Nuttall, Manual, vol. i. p. 534. 



