BESEBT TBUMPETEB BULLFINCH. 



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GRANIVOR^. 



Famihj FRINGILLID^. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Carpodacus. (Kaup.) 



DESERT TRUMPETER BULLFINCH. 



Carpodacus githagineus. 



Pyrrhula githaginea, 



" payreaiidaei, 

 Fringilla githaginea, 



" thebaica, 



Erythrospi%a githaginea, 



Carpodacus payreaiidaei, 



Bucanetes githagineus, 

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Serinus githagineus, 

 Erythrothorax githaginea, 

 Bouvreuil-rose, 

 Trompeter gimpel, 

 Papageien gimpel, 

 Rose7i gimpel, 

 Egyptscher rosen-gimpel. 



Temminck. Roux. 



Bolle; Naumannia, 1858, p. 369. 



Bree; I St. Edition. 



Audouin; Descr. Egypt. Zool. 



Lichtenstein. 



Hemprich; Sched. Mus. Berolin. 



Bonaparte. 



Gray; Gen, of Birds. 



Cabanis; Mus. Hein., p. 164. 



Gray; Hand List, No. 7523. 



Gloger. 



Chr. L. Brehm. 



Of the French. 



Cabanis. 



C. L. Brehm. 



A. Brehm. 



Schlegel. 



Specific Characters. — The small feathers all round the base of the beak 

 rose carmine; rump, external borders of the primaries, and abdomen a most 

 delicately beautiful rose pink; no transverse bands across the wings; the 

 first quiil feather the longest in the wing. Length five inches and a half; 

 from carpus to tip three inches and three eighths; the tip of the wing 

 reaching, when closed, within one third of an inch of the end of the 

 tail. Tail two inches and three eighths long; tarsus three quarters of an 

 inch; beak from gape five eighths of an inch; height of beak five twelfths 

 of an inch; circumference of beak at base one inch. 



