SEBIN FINGH. 



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GRANIV0RJ5. 



Famili/ FRINGILLWJE. f Bonaparte. J 



Genus Fringilla. { Lmnceus.) 



SERIN FINCH. 



Fringilla serinus. 



Fringilla serinus, 

 Pyrrhula serinus, 



Serinus flavescens, 



' ' brimialis, 



" hortulanus, 



" meridionalis et islandious, 

 Serin Finch, 

 Serin cini, 



Gemeiner griingimpel or girlitz, 

 Verzellino, 



Raperino, Verdolini, Serino d'' Italia, 

 Crespolino, 



LinNtEUS. Temminck. 



SCHLEGEL. DeGLAND. 



Keyserling et Blasius. 



Gould. Bonaparte. 



Strickland. 



Koch. 



Bonaparte. 



Latham; Syn., vol. iii, p. 296. 



Of the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Savi. 



Stor. 



Of the Tuscans. 



Specific Characters. — The back olivaceous, marked with longitudinal blackish 

 spots; vertex pale olivaceous yellow; primaries and tail feathers dusky brown. 

 Length four inches and a half; carpus to tip two inches and seven eighths ; 

 tarsus nine lines; beak four lines. 



The Serin Finch is an inhabitant of Southern Europe. It is found 

 plentifully in Spain, the south of France, in Italy, Greece, in that 

 part of Switzerland which borders on Italy, and more rarely in the 

 south and south-west of Germany. It is also found in Central Ger- 

 . mafiy, in the north of France, and in Holland; but Naumann says it 

 is not found in the north of Germany. According to Faber, it has 

 been found and killed between %^° and 67° of north latitude. It has 



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