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brown: general colour of the plumage a brilliant deep orange, 
verging to fearlet: wings and tail dufky ; the outer edges of the 
quills fringed with orange, and the ends of the prime ones black : 
the tail even at the end: legs black. 
Inhabits Sandwich Iflands. 
Loxia erythrina, N. C. Petr. xiv. p. 587. t. 23. f. 1. Male and Female. 
(Aud. P. 8. Pallas.) 
‘ Lev. Mf. 
I ZE of a Greenfinch, but the head fmaller: length near five 
inches: weight five drachms. Bill brownifh horn-colour : 
between that and the eyes cinereous grey: head, neck, and 
throat, red: lower part of the neck whitifh: the nape and back. 
€inereous, with a reddifh caft: wing coverts brown, edged with 
reddifh: quills brown, margined with luteous: the under parts 
white, tinged with red on the breaft and fides: tail rather forked; 
brown fhafts, and margins luteous: legs the colour of the 
bill. 
The female is wholly of a yellowifh afh-colour on the upper 
parts, marked on the crown with yellowish fpots : fides of the head 
almoft white: chin white: on the neck a few obfcure brown 
markings: tail dufky brown, margined with grey. 
This inhabits the thick woods about the Volga and Samara, 
where it is called the Red Sparrow; is a tame foolifh bird. 
The female makes a neft of hay between the branches of trees, 
Is found in finall numbers in winter among the flocks of Swow- 
fiokes, and feeds on the feeds of plants. It is alfo met with in 
Sibiria, about the river Tome. 
5 6 Ne 
Pace. 
29. 
CRIMSON- 
HEADED F. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
FEMALE 
Places. 
