PYEEHTTLA CASSINI. 



(CASSIN'S BULLFINCH.) 



Pyrrhula coccinea, var. cassini, Baird, Trans. Chic. Acad. i. p. 316 (1869). 



Pyrrhula cassini, Baird, Tristram, Ibis, 1871, p. 231. 



Pyrrhula cineracea, Cabanis, J. fur Orn. 1872, p. 316. 



Pyrrhula nepalensis (nee Hodgs.), Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873). 



Pyrrhula vulgaris (nee Temm.), Severtzoff, ut supra (1873). 



Pyrrhula cineracea pallida, Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 101. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Baird, Trans. Chic. Acad. i. pi. xxix.; Dybowski, J. f. Orn. 1874, pi. i.; Baird, Brew., & 

 Bidgw. Hist. N.-Am. B. i. pi. xxiii. fig. 11; Gould, B. of Asia, v. pi. xl.; Turner, Nat. 

 Hist. Alaska, Birds, pi. vii. 



d ad. corpore supra caerulescenti-cinereo, uropygio albo : pileo, genis et mento nitide nigris : corpore subtus 

 cserulescenti-cinereo sed conspicue pallidiore, gula, regione parotica et hypochondriis pallidioribus : alis, 

 cauda et supracaudalibus nitide nigris : tectricibus alarum minoribus dorso concoloribus, majoribus 

 nigris cinereo terminatis, crisso et subcaudalibus albis : rostro nigro : iride fusca : pedibus saturate 

 fuscis. 



$ ad. mari similis, sed gula, gutture et corpore subtus fusco-cervino lavatis. 



Adult Male (Onon, December 4th). Upper parts clear blue-grey, underparts pale asby grey ; rump, crissum, 

 and under tail-coverts pure white ; crown and nape, lores, and the whole space round the bill in front 

 of the eye, together with the chin, deep glossy black ; quills black, the outer web purplish black ; lesser 

 wing-coverts blue-grey, the larger coverts glossy black, with the terminal portion blue-grey ; tail black, 

 the central rectrices and upper tail-coverts purplish black, the remaining tail-feathers with the outer 

 web glossy black or purplish black ; cheeks and ear-coverts clearer and paler ; flanks and centre of the 

 abdomen rather paler than the rest of the underparts : bill black; iris dark brown; legs dark brown. 

 Total length about 6 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 3'45, tail 2'80, tarsus 0"65. 



Adult Female (Onon, January 17th). Differs from the male only in being rather less clear in tone of 

 colour, and the underparts are brownish grey and not ashy grey. 



The range of this Bullfinch is very extensive, as it has been met with from the Ural Mountains 

 through Siberia to Alaska, and southward to Turkestan and the Mongolian slopes of the 

 Altai range. 



According to Dr. Cabanis it has strayed as far west as St. Petersburg, as a specimen was 

 obtained alive in the St. Petersburg market in February 1877 (J. f. O. 1877, p. 223). 



Professor Menzbier informs me that examples of this Bullfinch are met with every winter 



