GR HOS BY EA 7.1K. 143 
Loxia pyrrhula, Liz. Sy. i. p. 300, N° 4.—Faun. Suec. 225,—Scop. an. i. 51. 
N° 202.—Brua. 240, 241.—Muller, p. 30. N° 247.—Kram. el. 365. + BULFINCH 
N° 3.—Frifch. i. pl. 2.-—Olin. uc. pl. in p. 40.—Georgi Reife, p. 174. 
Le Bouvreuil, Bri/. orz. li. p. 308. N° 1.—Buf, oif. iv. p. 372. pl. 17.— 
Pl. enl. 145. 
Bulfinch, Alp, or Nope, Razi Syz. p. 86. A.—Will. orn. 247. pl. 44.— 
Albin. i. pl. 59, 60.—Br. Zool. i. N° 116.—<Ar&. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu. 
HIS bird is fo generally known, that it needs only to fay, 
that the head, wings, and tail, are black: breaft and belly 
red: the upper tail coverts and vent white: and the breaft afh- 
colour. 
The female differs in having the under parts of a reddifh 
brown. 
- This fpecies is pretty common in Exgland; and makes the neft_ — PLace anp 
in the bubhes, five or fix feet from the ground; it is compofed = MaNERs- 
chiefly of mofs; and the eggs, which are five or fix in number, 
are dirty blueifh white, marked at the large end with dark 
{pots. The time of breeding about the end of May or beginning 
of Fune. 
In the fummer it moftly frequents woods, and the more re- 
tired places ; in winter approaches gardens cl orchards, making 
havoc among the buds of trees. 
Both male and female may be taught to whiftle many tunes ; 
but in their wild ftate have only a plain note, two or three times 
repeated, and at times the words ¢uz, tui, both far from difagree- 
able ; in neither cafe what may be called a fong. It will fre~ 
quently learn to articulate feveral words ; but I find this to be 
taught in Germany, from whence fuch birds are annually im- 
ported into Lowdon. From the account of authors, it feems to 
9 be 
DESCRIPTIONo 
FemMALee 
