1i2 
FEMALE. 
PLAcE AND 
MaAnNnwNeERsSe 
6. 
CAUCASIAN 
GR. 
DescrRiPTion. 
Gk OS B E A&A K. 
black ; the fecondaries have the outer border white, and the 
primaries grey margins: the belly and vent are afh-coloured: 
the tail is a little forked, marked as the quills : legs brown. 
The female is moftly of a greenifh brewn colour, with here 
and there a reddifh or yellowifh tinge, but chiefly at the top of 
the head. 
This fpecies frequents the moft northern parts of this kingdom, 
being only met with in Scotland, and efpecially the Highlands, 
where it breeds, and inhabits the pine-forefts, feeding on the feeds, 
like the Crofs-di/l. It is alfo found in all the pine-forefts of 
Sibiria, Lapland, and the northern parts of Rufia; common 
about Sz. Peterfburgh in autumn, and is caught in great plenty 
at that time for the ufe of the table, returning north in {pring *. 
They are likewife common to the northern parts of America ; 
appear at Hud/on’s Bay in May, to which place they are faid to 
come from the /outh, and are obferved to feed on the buds of 
willow. The fouthern fettlements are inhabited by them through- 
out the year, but the northern only in the fummer feafon. Our 
laft voyagers met with this bird in Norton Sound; it was alfo 
found at Aoonalafbka +. 
Loxia rubicilla, N.C. Petr. vol. xix. p. 463. N° 1. pl. 12. Au&. 4. Se 
Gueldenftaedt. 
rf ENGTH eight inches. The upper mandible brown, the 
under whitifh: eyes brown: the upper part of the head and 
body, the fore part of the neck arid breaft, deep crimfon, marked 
with triangular fpots of white: belly and vent pale rofe-colour, 
* Mr. Pennant ¢ Zilis’s Narr. vol. it. p» 15. 
6 : undulated 
