574 FRINGILLID A. 
INSESSORES. FRINGILLID/E. 
CONIROSTRES. 
THE BULLFINCH. 
Pyrrhula vulgaris. 
Loma pyrrhula, The Bullfinch, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 430. 
oy) ” °° Mont acu, Ornith. Dict. 
” » sp Berwick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 168. 
Pyrrhula vulgaris, Common ,, Fem. Brit. An. p. 82. 
> 9 x % SeBy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 336. 
” » 9 39 JEnywns, Brit. Vert. p. 140. 
s es The a GouLp, Birds of Europe, pt. xi. 
= os Bovreuil commun, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. iy. p. 338. 
PyrRHULA.—Generic Characters.—Beak short and thick at the base; the 
sides inflated and bulging ; upper mandible convex, deflected at the tip, and 
overhanging the point of the lower one. Nostrils basal, lateral, round, more or 
less concealed by hair-like feathers at the base of the bill, directed forwards. 
Feet with the tarsus shorter than the middle toe: toes, three before, one be- 
hind, divided. Wings rather short ; the first quill shorter than the third, 
which is of the same length as the fourth, and the longest in the wing. 
