TREE FINCH. 

 ( Fringilla montana.) 



Fr. remigibus rectricibusque fuscis, corpore griseo nigroqite, 



.. alarum fascia alba gemina. 



Finch with the quill and tail-feathers fuscous, the body black 



and grey, with a double white band on the wings. 

 Fringilla montana. Lin. Syst. Nat. l . 234. 37. — Lin. Faun. Suet. 



243. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 925. — Lath. bid. Orn. 1. 433. 2. 

 Loxia hamburgia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 854. 

 Pyrrhula hamburgensis. Bris. 3. 314. 2. 

 Le Ilambourroux. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4-. 398. 

 Passer montanus. Bris. 3. ?Q. 2. 

 Friquet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3.489.29.2. — Buff. PL Fhl. 



267. f. I. 

 Hamburgh Tree Creeper. Albin. Birds. 3. 24. 

 Hamburgh Grosbeak. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 149. 64. 

 Tree Finch. Penn. Brit. Zool. 12S. — Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 246. — 



Albin. 3. 66. — Letvin. Brit. Birds. 2. 78. — Edxvards. 269. — 



Montagu. Brit. Birds. 2. — Mont. Sup. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 



252. 2. — Lath. Syn. Sup. l63. — Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 158. 



Rather less than the House Finch : beak black: 

 irides hazel : crown of the head and hinder 

 part of the neck chesnut colour : sides of the 

 head white : throat black : behind the eyes a large 

 black spot : upper part of the body rusty brown, 

 spotted with black : breast and under parts dirty 

 white : quills black, with reddish margins ; greater 

 coverts the same ; lesser coverts bay, edged with 

 black, and barred with two white stripes : tail 

 reddish brown : legs pale yellow : female similar 



