Ga Ri Ot Sir Be EE) Ay K; 
undulated with whitifh ; under tail coverts rofe-coloured brown: 
thighs hoary: bafe of all the feathers deep afh-colour, giving an 
undulated appearance throughout: prime coverts and quills 
brown, edged with rofe-colour: tail three inches and a half 
long, even, of a glofly black, the outer feathers margined with 
whitifh, the reft with rofe-colour: legs and claws black: the 
wings are an inch fhorter than the tail. 
The female differs very little, except in having the colours 
more dull. 
This fpecies inhabits the coldeft parts of the Caucafian moun- 
tains, efpecially the gravelly hollows; and lives on the /ea duck- 
thorn * berries, which grow there plentifully, and is the means 
of propagating it, the feeds paffing through them: often fly in 
vaft flocks; the note not unlike that of a Bulfinch. 
Loxia Capenfis, Lin. Sy/.i. p. 306. N° 39. 
Le Pingon du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Bri/. ore. iti. 171. N° 45. pl. 16. 
f. 1. 
Le Pinfon noir & jaune, Buf. of, iv. p. 142. 
Le Gros-bec de Coromandel, Buf, oi/. iii. p. 456.—PI/. ext. 101. £. to 
Loxia atra, Uropygio flavo, N. C. Petr. xi. 438. t. 16. f. g. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu. 
IZE of a Chaffinch: length almoft fix inches and a quarter. 
Bill very ftout, and of a dufky colour: the head, neck, upper 
part of the back, and under parts of the body and tail, are of a 
deep black: the feathers of the head fhort, like pluth or velvet: 
the fhoulders of the wings, and lower part of the back and rump, 
of a fine deep yellow ; the reft of the wing reddifh brown, edged 
“ Hippophe rhamnoides. Lin. : 
Vo. Il. Q with 
113 
Femave. 
PLACE. 
Fe 
+ CAPE GR. 
DeEscriPTION. 
