SCARLET BULLFINCH. 
a brighter colour, namelj a dirty yellowish or brown 
yellowish flesh-colour, the tips of the claws being dark 
brown. — (N aumami.) 
In the first part of the Bulletin of the Imperial 
Society of Naturalists of Moscow, for the year 1860, 
there is an article by Alexander Von Nordmann, 
upon the birds of Finland and Lapland, in which he 
states that P. erythrina is very common in Southern 
Finland, which was not the case, according to the 
testimony of his father, thirty years ago. It builds 
every year in the Botanical Gardens at Helsingfors, 
in the tops of the maple and Carangana Sibirica. It 
arrives at Helsingfors in the middle of IMay, and the 
young are fledged by the 25th. of June. The nest 
is made loosely of twigs. The eggs are white, with a 
few blackish red spots at the large end. The voice 
of the bird is loud and flute-like, easily recognised 
again when once heard. It has a call-cry similar to 
our Greenfinch. — (See ‘This,” January, 1861, p. 111.) 
The figure of my bird is from Naumann. The egg 
is from Badeker. 
The bird has also been figured by Gould, B. of E., 
pi. 206; Dubois, Oiseaux de la Belgique, pi. 117, (male 
and female;) Naumann, Natur. der Vogel Deutsch., 
pi. 113, (male and female.) 
