10 ROSY BULLFINCH. 



wHcli I have taken from Naumami, shew very important structural 

 differ ences. 



The Rosy Bullfinch is found in Northern Asia, principally in Siberia 

 — on the banks of the rivers Uda, Selenga, etc., visiting in the winter 

 the eastern parts of the south of Europe, and occasionally it has been 

 captured in Hungary. It has also, but very rarely, been seen in the 

 north-east of Germany. It has also been included by Professor Blasius 

 among the list of birds captured in Heligoland. 



Very little is known of the natural history of this bird. This may 

 in a great measure arise from its being very frequently mistaken for 

 the last. Pallas says, however, that even in Siberia it is rare and 

 solitary, occurring on the Uda and Selenga rivers among the willows. 

 Schrenck confirms this, and further observes that in summer it moves 

 northwards to the banks of the Lena. He did not observe it in the 

 Amoor in summer. It came in the autumn about the middle of October. 

 He shot one as early as September 22nd. They came in small flocks. 

 Naumann senior saw it free once only, and then was not acquainted 

 with its name for several years after. Temminck, in the first edition 

 of his "Manual," confounded it with the Scarlet Bullfinch. 



The E-osy Bullfinch likes to live in bushes which grow near water, 

 and occasionally comes into gardens, accompanied by the Snow Bunting. 

 It feeds upon all common seeds, according to Naumann, and on the 

 kernels of various berries. About its propagation nothing is known. 



The adult male has the top of the head rose; forehead and throat 

 of a silvery and shining white; vertex, neck, and body of a very 

 bright crimson red, with the feathers of the back and scapularies black 

 in the centre; two bands of a rosy white on the wings, of which the 

 coverts are edged with dirty white; cheeks, lower part and sides of 

 neck, and chest, crimson red; belly and under tail coverts rosy white; 

 primaries and tail quills brown, edged with rose on the outside; beak 

 and feet clear brown. 



The following is Dr. Schrcnck's account of the female: — "It is true 

 that Bonaparte and Schlegel figure the nominally full-grown female of 

 P. rosea without the slightest sprinkling of red. This must be the 

 young female, for Pallas describes the old female as having on the 

 throat, neck, rump, and particularly the forehead, a stronger or weaker 

 cinnabar red flush or sprinkling, which is confirmed in the specimens 

 from the Amoor, as well as one in our museum from Western Siberia. 

 In all these a very visible reddish flush extends over the throat 

 and upper part of the breast, paling down more and more on the 

 abdomen, and even to the under tail coverts. On the upper parts 

 this flush is particularly marked towards the forehead, on the crown 



