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light colour, or dull isabelle yellow, which Dr. llolle 
.says Dcghmd wrongly ascribes to the female. This 
colour goes doAvn wards from the throat Avithout any 
streaks, and gradually blends into Avhitish; there is no 
trace of red, not even on the almost isabelle yellow 
tint. The under tail coverts are yelloAvish; greater and 
lesser wing coverts, wings, and tail have a darkish 
broAvn colour, Avith a speckled grey yelloAV on both 
edges; beak and feet flesh-colour. (Bolle.) 
My flgure of this bird is a male sent to me by Mr. 
Tristram, and marked “Biskara, 212nd. Jan., 1857.” The 
egg is also from a specimen sent me by the same 
gentleman. 
The bird has also been figured by Temininck et 
Tangier, planche color, 400, figs. 1 and 2; Boux, Or- 
nith. ProA’., vol. i., suj^p. plate 74, bis, young male in 
autumn plumage; Gould, B. of E., pi. 208. 
The folloAving have been by A^arious authors admitted 
into the European list of the genus Pijrrhula : — 
1 . — Pyrrliula coccinea, Selys. — The Greater Bullfinch, 
^Boucreuil ponceau of the French,) differs in nothing 
Avhatever from the Common Bullfinch except in size, 
and having rather more Avhite on the rump, and the 
band of this colour across the Avings being rather broader. 
W^e are informed by Dubois (Oiseaux de la Belgique, 
p. 125,) that it never mixes Avith the common species. 
It Avas first introduced as a distinct race by Yieillot, 
Diet., 1817, and after by M. Le Baron Selys-Longchamps, 
in his “Faune Beige.” Schlegel, hoAveA^er, in his ‘^Be- 
vue Critque,” 1844, declined to admit it as a distinct 
species, having never seen it in nature. De Selys 
himself only considered it as a local race of the Common 
Bullfinch. Degland admits it into his “Ornithologie 
