Female. 
258 PASSERES. PYRRHULA. BuLirinc# 
with crimson, forming two bars across the wings. Quills 
and tail feathers greyish-black, edged with pale crimson. 
Flanks, belly, and vent, greyish-white, tinged with crim- 
son. 
In the adult male, those parts which were crimson-red in the 
immature bird, exhibit a fine reddish-orange. The 
breast and belly are also of a pale orange; and the bars 
upon the wings become white. 
Fig. 2. The female, natural size. 
Head and neck clove-brown, tinged more or less with orange. 
The upper parts brown, tinged with ash-grey. Lower 
parts grey, with a slight tinge of orange. Upon the 
wings are two transverse greyish-white bars. Quills and 
tail blackish-grey, edged with oil-green, with a tinge of 
orange. 
The young birds resemble the female, except that they show 
less of the orange tinge. 
* Bullfinch Grosbeak.—Pyrula vulgaris, Temm. 
PLATE 54. Fig. 1, 2. 
Pyrrhula vulgaris, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 338. 
Loxia pyrrhula, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 300. 4.—Fauna Suec. No. 225.—Gmed. 
Syst. 1. p. 846. sp. 4. Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 387. sp. 56.—Raii, Syn. 
p. 86. A.— Will. p. 130. t. 43. 
Le Bouvreuil, Buff: Ois. v. 4. p. 372. t. 17.—Id. Pl. Enl, 245. M. & F. 
Le Bruant ecarlate, Sonn. nov. edit. de Buff: Ois. v. 13. p. 114. 
Bouvreuil commun, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 338. 
Rothburstiger Gimpel, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 55.—Meyer, Tas- 
schenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 147. 
Bullfinch, Br. Zool. 1. No. 116.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 353. A.— Albin. 1. t. 59, 
60.—Lath. Syn. 2. p. 143. 51.—IJd. Sup.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 70.— 
Mont. Ornith. Dict. v. 1.—Haye’s Br. Birds, t. 37.—Waie. Syn. t. 209. 
—Puit. Cat. Dorset. p. 11.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. t. p. 138.—Shaw’s 
Zool. v. 9. p. 318. t. 52. 
Provincial, Pope. 
The Bullfinch is indigenous with us, and common in all 
the wooded districts of these islands. It is a bird of retired 
habits, and does not associate with other kinds, bemg gene- 
