ALPINE SERIN FINCH. 39 



Zoologie" for 1847, page 120, this distinguished naturalist has given 

 the following more extended diagnosis of the adult bird: — Top of 

 the head, auditory region, and throat, of a dull black, with the 

 forehead of a briglat and lively red; nape, upper parts of the body, 

 and upper tail coverts, grey; the centre of the feathers blackish, 

 having the borders of a saffron yellow or grey white; the parts 

 below dirty white, with longitudinal blackish spots on the flanks 

 and under tail coverts, the whole irregularly washed with saffron 

 yellow; wings blackish, the lesser coverts broadly bordered with 

 saffron yellow; primaries slightly bordered with this colour, and the 

 secondaries with grey white; tail blackish, with the end lightly 

 bordered with grey white; beak brown; feet black. 



Figured by Pallas, Zoog., 1811-31, vol. ii., p. 28. 



I have not a specimen or good drawing of this bird, which I 

 -therefore am sorry to say cannot be figured. 



