GPvANIYOR^. 
Family FRINGILLID^. ( Botiaparte.J 
Genus Frixgilla. f Linnceus.J 
Generic Characters — Beak short, strong, convex, straight, 
and conic; superior mandible dilated, slightly bent at the 
point; the upper part depressed. Nostrils basal, round, placed 
near the forehead, behind the horny elevation of the swollen part 
of the beak, partly hid by the feathers of the forehead. Tarsi 
shorter than the middle toe. The two or three first wing 
primaries tapering, the third or fourth the longest. 
CEIMSON-WINGED GEOSBEAK. 
Fringilla coccotJiraustes plimiicoptera. 
Fringilla rliodopfera, 
Montifringilla sanguinea, 
Ergthrospiza phcenicoptera 
et Rhodopechgs phcenicoptera, 
Rhodopechys phcenicoptera, 
“ phcenicoptere. 
Lichtenstein. 
Gould. 
Bonapahte. 
Cabanis. 
Loche. 
Specific Characters . — Top of the head in the male black; the 
first two-thirds of the outer web of aU the primaries, except the 
first, the feathers round the eyes, and the ujiper tail coverts, rich 
crimson. Length seven inches; carpus to tip four inches and 
three-tenths; tarsus ten fines; tail two inches and three-fifths; 
beak seven fines; circumference of beak at base one inch and a half. 
