542 FRINGILLID A. 
It is found in Sweden, and is said to be found also in 
Kurope from Siberia to the Grecian Archipelago. It is 
certainly abundant in Germany, France, Provence, Spain, 
and Italy; it is found also at Corfu, Sicily, Malta, and 
Crete; Mr. Strickland says it is common at Smyrna, and 
the Zoological Society have received specimens sent by 
Keith Abbott, Esq., from Trebizond. 
The beak is whitish horn colour, black at the tip; irides 
dusky brown; the whole circumference at the base of the 
beak crimson red; cheeks and ear-coverts white; top of 
the head black, which colour descends from the occiput in a 
band on each side of the neck ; nape of the neck below the 
occipital band white; back, scapulars, and rump, dusky 
wood-brown ; carpal portion of the wing, and the smaller 
wing-coverts, black ; greater wing-coverts, and the outer 
edge of the basal half of each primary, brilliant gamboge 
yellow; the remaining portion of the primaries, and nearly 
all the other quill-feathers black ; the tertials with a spot of 
white at the tip; upper tail-coverts greyish white: tail- 
feathers black ; the outer feather on each side with an oval- 
shaped spot of white on the inner web; tail in form slightly 
forked. Chin, as before remarked, crimson red, around it 
white ; the whole of the under surface of the body dull 
white ; tinged on the sides of the neck, the throat, on the 
breast, sides of the body, and on the thighs, with wood- 
brown ; under wing-coverts white ; legs and toes pale flesh 
colour ; claws brown. 
The whole length of the bird five inches. From the car- 
pal joint to the end of the wing, two inches and seven- 
eighths: the first, second, and third quill-feathers, nearly 
equal in length, the first rather the longest ; the fourth, one- 
eighth shorter than the third. 
In the females, the red on the forehead and chin occupies 
smaller space, and is frequently speckled with black; the 
