GllIMSON- WINGED GB OS BEAK. 



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GHANIVORiE. 



Famthj FRINGILLID2E. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Fringilla. ( Linnceus.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak short, strong, convex, straight, and conic; superior 

 mandible dilated, slightly bent at the point; the upper part depressed. 

 Nostrils basal, round, placed near the forehead, behind the horny elevation 

 of the swollen part of the beak, partly hid by the feathers of the forehead. 

 Tarsi shorter than the middle toe. The two or three first wing primaries 

 tapering, the third or fourth the longest. 



CRIMSON-WINGED GROSBEAK. 



Fringilla coccothraustes phcenicoptera. 



Fringilla rhodopiera, 

 Montifringilla sanguinea, 

 Erythrospiza phcenicoptera et 

 Rhodopechys ph(£7iicoptera, 

 Khodopechys phcEnicoptera, 

 " phcenicoptere, 



" sanguineus, 



LiCHTENSTEIN. 



Gould. 



Bonaparte. 

 Cabanis. 



LOCHE. 



Gray; Hand List, No. 752S 



Specific Characters. — Top of the head in the male black; the first two 

 thirds of the outer web of all the primaries, except the first, the feathers 

 round the eyes, and the upper tail coverts, rich crimson. Length seven 

 inches; carpus to tip four inches and three tenths; tarsus ten lines; tail 

 two inches and three fifths; beak seven lines; circumference of beak at 

 base one inch and a half. 



This beautiful species is closely allied to the Desert Trumpeter, 

 Pyrrhula githaginea. It has been included with it and Fringilla 

 obsoleta, by Lichtenstein, in the genus Erythrospiza, in which arrange- 

 ment he was followed by Bonaparte. Subsequently Cabanis placed this 



