EOSY BULLFINCH. 
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The head and neck are carmine red, irith a brown 
grey sparkling through it, so that the feathers (like, 
in fact, those of the whole bird,) are more or less 
dark, having a ground of grey and white, and the red 
colouring only taking possession of the tips or edges 
of the feathers. On the temples, the hinder part of 
the head, the throat, to the middle of the breast, and 
the rump, this colouring is the brightest, a deep 
brilliant rose red; and on the sides of the breast dark 
brovm arrow-shaped spots on a whitish ground, be- 
coming larger on the flanks, with, on this part of the 
body, a yellow white tinge; the belly and under wing 
coverts are white, Avith rosy red borders. There is 
one peculiarity to be noticed, namely, that in this 
northern bird, as Avell as in the male of PyrrJmla 
longicauda, Temminck, Avhich is the Loxia Sihirica of 
Pallas, the feathers of the vertex and throat have a 
silvery scaly appearance, and the barbs of the feathers, 
as well as their points, have a bright shining white 
colour. The shoulders and uiiper part of the back are 
dark broAvn, spotted Avith red streaks; the dark brown 
feathers of this part have borders of carmine red; the 
greater feathers of the shoulders haA^e also white bor- 
ders. All the wing feathers have a dull dark broAvti 
ground; the lesser Aving feathers carmine red borders, 
the greater, broad white borders, Avith rosy red tips. 
The greater wing coverts rosy red borders with Avhite 
tips, forming tAvo oblique borders of Aidiite across the 
wings. The upper tail coverts bright red, with dark 
brown arroAV-spots, and the darker broAim tail feathers, 
of Avhich the outermost are merely someAvhat lighter, 
have rosy red borders; the underneath Aving and tail 
feathers are light brown grey; the under Aving coverts 
dirty white, spotted Avith broAvn, having, at the edges, 
a tinge of rosy red. 
