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tlie Caucasus, I do not include it in this catalogue, and must refer 

 for a description to tlie ' Revue ' of M. Sclilegel, p. 79." This des- 

 cription is that of Guldenstadt, and is very clear and minute. 



It appears to be intermediate between the Pine Bullfinch and the 

 Hawfinch, of a soft red colour, variegated with white and grey. It 

 is indigenous to the Caucasian Alps, delighting in the cold regions 

 frequented by the Pine Bunting, especially the beds of gravelly 

 rivers, where it feeds on the berries of the Uippophoes rhamnoides . 

 It assembles in flocks, and imitates the notes of the Bullfinch. There 

 is scarcely any difference in the sexes. 



"The top of the head, throat, underneath the neck, and chest, 

 intense red, marbled with white acutely triangular spots and streaks; 

 abdomen and under tail coverts weak rose, watered with white; tail 

 feathers below rosy-fuscous. Neck above and back greyish, with a 

 rosy tinge; tail feathers above rosy-fuscous. The base of all the 

 feathers which lie in situ, and which constitute the greater part of all 

 the plumage, is intensely grey. The closed wing is an inch shorter 

 than the tail; the primaries and tail feathers are fuscous, indistinctly 

 margined with rose; the axillary quills colour of the back. The 

 tail is three inches and six lines long; the twelve tail feathers 

 brassy-black, the tip of each external margin white, the rest shaded 

 with rose. The thighs are feathered to the knee, and grey; the 

 tarsus and toes, of which there are three before and one behind, of 

 a black colour; claws incurved, acuminate, black, equal anteriorly, 

 the hind one longest. Length eight inches, of wings four inches 

 nine lines, tarsus one inch one line, middle toe nine lines, hind toe 

 five lines." 



Figured by Guldenstadt, Nov. Comm. Petr., xix., pi. 12. 



I have thought it right to give a translation of the principal part 

 of Guldenstadt's diagnosis of this bird, and regret that I have not a 

 specimen to figure. Although confined as it is to neutral ground, its 

 claims to European rank are very slight. 



