8 S CABLET BULLFINCH. 



feathers, which become larger on the upper part of the breast, where 

 the ground is also brownish, but on the sides is shaded into brownish 

 grey; belly and under wing feathers dirty white, without spots; the 

 dark brown wing feathers have on the outer side a yellow greenish 

 bordering, which makes them brighter; beak and feet are like those 

 of the old male, but of a brighter colour, namely a dirty yellowish 

 or brown yellowish flesh-colour, the tips of the claws being dark 

 brown. — (Naumann.) 



In the first part of the Bulletin of the Imperial Society of Natu- 

 ralists of Moscow, for the year 1860, there is an article by Alexander 

 von Nordmann, upon the birds of Finland and Lapland, in which 

 he states that P. erythrina is very common in Southern Finland, 

 which was not the case, according to the testimony of his father, 

 thirty years ago. It builds every year in the Botanical Gardens at 

 Helsingfors, in the tops of the maple and Carangana sihirica. It 

 arrives at Helsingfors in the middle of May, and the young are 

 fledged by the 25th. of June. The nest is made loosely of twigs. 

 The eggs are white, with a few blackish red spots at the large end. 

 The voice of the bird is loud and flute-like, easily recognised again 

 when once heard. It has a call-cry similar to our Greenfinch. — (See 

 "Ibis," January, 1861, p. HI.) 



The male figure of my bird is from a specimen in my own col- 

 lection, sent to me by Moeschler of Herrnhut; it was killed on the 

 Volga. The female was kindly lent me by Lord Lilford. The &^^ 

 is also in my own collection, and was sent to me by Dr. Meves of 

 Stockholm. I have also another, taken by Dr. Dybowski in Siberia. 

 Both these eggs are a lively blue green, with black spots at the 

 larger end. Biideker's figure and description in the first edition weie 

 similar, showing the above account of the q^^ by M. Alexander von 

 Nordmann to be absolutely incorrect. It is recorded by Herr Collett 

 as breeding at Polmak, on the Tana. 



The bird has also been figured by Gould, B. of E., pi. 206; Dubois, 

 Oiseaux de la Belgique, pi. 117, (male and female;) Naumann, 

 Natur. der Vogel Deutsch., pi. Ho, (male and female;) Dresser, B. 

 of E., (male and female.) 



