ROSY BULLFINCH. 



GRANIVOR^. 



Family FRINGILLIDjE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Cakpodacus. (Kaup.) 



ROSY BULLFINCH. 



Carpodacus roseus. 



Carpodacus roseus, Kaup. Bonaparte. 



Pyrrhula rosea, Temminck. Bree; ist. Edition. 



" " Naumann; t. 113. Gould; B. of E., pi. 207. 



Passer roseus, Pallas; Zoog., t. 42. 



Fi'ingilla rosea, Pallas and Authors. 



Propasser roseus, Gray; Hand List, No. 7522. 



Bouvreuil-rose, Of the French. 

 Sihirischer Rosengimpel, Of the Germans. 



Moineau rose. Of Pallas; Voyage Appendix. 



Specific Characters. — The vertex red, with silver-white spots; throat also 

 mottled with crimson and white; rump crimson or yellowish white; two 

 transverse bands of white across the wings. Length five inches and a half, 

 French, (Temminck,) six inches and a half, German, (Naumann;) expanse 

 of wings eleven inches and a half; length of somewhat notched and forked 

 tail two inches and five eighths. The wing does not reach to half the 

 length of the tail; the club-shaped beak five and a half lines; tarsus three 

 quarters of an inch; middle claw and toe seven lines; hinder toe and claw 

 rather over six lines; legs and toes covered with scales. — (Naumann.) 



The E,osy Bullfinch is described by Naumann as the most beautiful 

 of our Northern European birds. Closely allied to the last species, it 

 yet differs from it in size and ornamentation. Its beak is quite dif- 

 ferent, being narrower and more pointed, having more the character 

 of that of the true Finches. The measurements also of the two species, 



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