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Subfamily LOXIINM. 



Genus CARPODACUS. 



Pyrrhula apud Pallas, Nov. Com. Petrop. xiv. p. 587 (1770). 

 Loocia apud Giildenstadt, Nov. Com. Petrop. xix. p. 464 (1775). 

 Coccothraustes apud Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 13 (1811). 

 Fringilla apud Meyer, Vog. Livl. p. 77 (1815). 

 Linaria apud Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 

 Pyrrhula apud Temminck, PL Col. 375 (1825). 

 Erythrma apud C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1276. 

 Carpodacus, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 161 (1829). 

 Erythrothorax apud C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 249 (1831). 

 Chlorospiza apud Bonaparte, Faun. Ital. Ucc. pi. 38 (1832). 

 Erythrospiza apud Bonaparte, Comp. List, p. 35 (1838). 

 Hcemorrhous apud Jerdon, Madr. Journ. 1 840, p. 36. 

 Strobilqphaga apud G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 387 (1844). 

 Pyrrhulinota apud Hodgson in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 

 Propasser apud Hodgson, ut supra (1844). 

 Bucanetes apud Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 164 (1850-51). 



The Rose Finches are, on the one side, tolerably closely allied to the Linnets and Redpolls, and 

 on the other to the Bullfinches ; and, indeed, some authors have united them with the former 

 in the same genus. They inhabit the Palsearctic, Oriental, and Nearctic, as well as the extreme 

 northern portions of the Neotropical and Ethiopian Regions, three species only being found 

 within the limits of the Western Palsearctic Region. They frequent groves, gardens, and well- 

 wooded marshy places, as also hilly country. They are sprightly active birds, and good 

 songsters, having a clear musical note. They build a rather loose, slight nest, resembling a 

 Bullfinch's rather than a Linnet's, placing it on a tree or bush, and deposit deep-greenish-blue 

 eggs marked with blackish-brown spots, chiefly at the larger end. They feed principally on 

 buds and seeds of various kinds. 



Carpoclacus erythrinus, the type of the genus, has the bill rather short, stout, thick at the 

 base, culmen rather rounded ; nostrils round, basal, hidden by recurved feathers ; gape nearly 

 straight ; wings moderately long, first quill finely attenuated, very small, second, third, and 

 fourth nearly equal, the third longest ; tail rather long, slightly forked ; tarsus and toes rather 

 slender than stout, the latter long, tarsus covered in front with four large and three inferior 

 scutellse ; claws moderate, curved, laterally grooved, acute ; plumage rather close, the males 

 much marked with red, the females with greenish. 



Carpoclacus roseus (Pall.), an inhabitant of the Eastern Palsearctic Region, has been 

 included in the European list, but, so far as I can ascertain, without valid reason ; and I have 

 therefore not admitted it. 



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