CHAFFINCH. 507 
INSESSORES. FRINGILLIDA. 
CONIROSTRES. 
THE CHAFFINCH. 
Fringilla celebs. 
Fringilla celebs, The Chaffinch, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p- 452. 
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FRINGILLA. 
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a Monracu, Ornith. Dict. 
os Bewicx, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 191. 
a Fiem. Brit. An. p. 83. 
+5 Sey, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 303. 
op Junyns, Brit. Vert. p. 133. 
5 Gou tp, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 
Gros-bec pinson, Tem. Man. d’Ornith. vol. 1. p. 357. 
Generic Characters.—Beak straight, longer than deep, conic and 
pointed; mandibles nearly equal, cutting edges entire, forming a straight com- 
missure. Nostrils basal, lateral, oval, partly hidden by the frontal plumes. Wings 
with the first quill-feather longer than the fifth, but a little shorter than the 
