Be cle? INE CR. EE, 
'Fringilla Lapponica, Lin. Sy/?. i. ps 317. 1.—Faun. Suec. N° 235.—Faun. 
Groenl. p. 115. N° 82. 
Fringilla calcarata, Pall. Trav. ii. p. 710. N° 20. t. E, 
Le Pingon de Montagne, Brif. orn. iii. p. 160. 38. 
Le grand Montain, Buf. of. iv. p. 134. 
Greater Brambling, 4/6. iu. pl. 63. 
Lapland Finch, 4r&. Zool. 
| Lev. Muf. 
HIS is. bigger than the Chaffinch: length fix inches and 
a half. Bill horn-colour, with a black tip: the head is 
blackifh, fpotted with rufous white: the upper part of the netk, 
back, and body, rufous, {potted with brown: behind each eye a 
curved white fpot: throat, fore part of the neck, and breaft, pale 
rufous: belly, thighs, and vent, white: leffer wing coverts pale 
rufous ; middle ones black, edged with yellow, and tipped with 
white, forming a bar on the wing: quills black, with pale yel- 
lowifh green edges: tail the fame, and a little forked in fhape: 
legs black. ; 
The female differs from the male, in being paler. 
This fpecies is found at Hud/on’s Bay, where it is called Tecu- 
moafoifo *, but differs fomewhat in fize, meafuring only five inches. 
The head is black; the curved mark behind the eye the fame : 
breaft whitith, with a longitudinal black ftreak down it: in other 
things not greatly different. It is found in the neighbourhood 
of Severn River, in winter only, appearing firft about November, 
and is commonly found near juniper-trees. Some of the males 
have more ferruginous about the head. It is alfo met with in — 
© Phil. Tranf, vol. Ixii. p. 404. Dr. Forffer. 
TO Lapland, 
263 
TA. 
LAPLAND F, 
DescripTioNn. 
FEMALE» 
PLACE AND 
MannNeERS. 
