GreEEN-FInNcH. PASSERES. FRINGILLA. 263 
Tacu says that, even in winter, during mild weather, he has 
heard it sing sweetly in low and plaintive notes. 
Puate 55. Fig. 1. Natural size. 
Bill, in the fate bird, pinkish-white, ee techaneaes after ce 
death, to a yellowish or pale brown. Inides ash-grey. tion oe 
Base of the bill, space between it and the eyes, chin 
and throat, black. Crown of the head, cheeks, rump, 
and upper tail-coverts, pale chesnut-brown, tinged with 
grey. Collar round the nape of the neck. bluish-grey. 
Back and smaller wing-coverts, very deep reddish-brown, 
then a succeeding row of white, forming an oblique bar 
across each wing. Secondary, and part of the primary 
quills, glossy black, with a purplish tinge, singularly cut 
or truncated at their points; and with a white oblong 
spot in the centres of their inner webs; the rest of the 
quills entirely black. Tail, having the four middle fea- 
thers white, with black bases; the rest with their inner 
webs half white half black, and their outer ones entirely 
black. Breast and belly pale brownish-purple-red. Vent 
and under tail-coverts white. Legs wood-brown. 
Greenfinch.—Fringilla chloris, Temm. 
PLATE 54. Fig. 3 
Fringilla chloris, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 346. 2. 
Loxia chloris, Linn. Syst. v. 1. p. 304. sp. 27.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. p. 382. 
. 39.—Raii, Syn. p. 85. A.— Will. p. 129. p. 44.—Briss. 3. p. 190. 54. 
te Verdier, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 172. t. 15.—Id. Pl. 267. f. 2. male. 
Gros-Bec Verdier, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 346. 
Gruner Kernbeisser, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 45.—Frisch. t. 2. f. 2 
A. B. 
De Groenling, Sepp. Nederl. Vég. v. 1. t. 1. p. 73. 
Greenfinch or Green Grosbeak, “Br. Zool. No 117.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 253. 
B.— Lath. Syn. 3. p. 134. 36.—Ib. Supp. p. 152.— Albin. |. t. 58.—Lewin’s 
Br. Birds, 2. t. 69.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. v. 1.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 11. 
—Wale. Syn. 2. t. 208.—Bewich’s Br. Birds, 1. p.  . t. 136. 
Provincial, Green Linnet. 
An indigenous species, and very abundant in all parts of 
Britain. After breeding, green linnets begin to assemble 
