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founded with F. canescens, wliich differs always from it, in that the 

 whole rump is of a pure white above, but it has a .much stronger 

 make, a very long tail, and the ground colour of the plumage white, 

 tinted with brown," 



This species inhabits Greenland, and is found occasionally in Belgium 

 and the north of France. 



M. Dubois, in his "Planches Colorees des Oiseaux de la Belgique," 

 a work which I have before had occasion to speak of with favour, 

 has the following notice of this bird, which I take the liberty, with 

 the author's kind permission, to transcribe: — "The Tarin d^Holboll 

 is very rare, and we have only very vague and very imperfect 

 accounts about it. We are ignorant of its true country. It is only 

 known that it comes from the north, and that it appears in Germany 

 and Belgium. Nothing is known about the habits and nidification 

 of this bird, but they probably do not differ from other species of 

 the same genus. It is distinguished from its congeners by the body 

 and beak being stronger, and the greater length of the wings. 

 Many naturalists have made a special genus for this Tarin and the 

 two other European species, but we cannot admit this distinction, as 

 these Tarins do not differ in anything but the colour of the 



plumage The figures are taken from two sx)eciniens in the 



collection of M. de Selys-Longchamps." 



The male has the vertex and forehead blood-red; upper parts of 

 neck and body whitish, with longitudinal blackish marks; rump, front 

 of neck, and chest, rose-red; rest of the under parts white; ear 

 coverts and throat black; 'primaries and tail feathers brown, edged 

 with pure white; beak yellow below and brown above; feet and iris 

 brown. The female is like the male, but without red on the neck 

 or chest; the lower part of the body white, with brown streaks on 

 the sides. 



Male and female in winter have the ground colour of the plumage 

 white, tinted with brown; rump pure white, and the black of the ear 

 coverts and throat dull. The young before the first moult are un- 

 known. — (Degland.) 



My figure is taken from the male in Dubois' plate, which I have 

 selected as being a good drawing of the specimen referred to in De 

 Sely's collection. 



It has also been -figured by Gould, Birds of Europe, 193? 



The following members of the genus Fringilla require a word or 

 two of notice: — 



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