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cassell's eook of birds. 



bright carmine, and the breast white, marked with carmine red. The male of a year old and the 

 female resemble the female linnet. The Carmine Bullfinches inhabit woods and districts covered 

 with reeds in the north of Europe and Asia, and are found in great numbers in Sweden, Finland and 



THE DESERT trumpeter [Bucanetes githogeneus). 



Russia. According to Jerdon, this species is also met with as a winter guest throughout India, being 

 seen very frequently in the north, but more rarely in the southern parts of that country, principally 

 inhabiting mountainous districts. " I have," he says, " generally found this bird in the bamboo 

 plantations ; indeed, it is called in the Telegu dialect the Bamboo Sparrow ; it also frequents 



