SHORT-TAILED FINCH. 435 



southern : it affects woods, and builds in the holes 

 of trees, laying four or five eggs, and feeds on 

 seeds and insects : it has not any note. These 

 birds are very delicate, as numbers are often found 

 dead in trees, in the winter, during which time 

 they assemble in flocks. 



SHORT-TAILED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla brachyura.) 



Fr. Jlavescens, yectore abdomineque magis albicantibus^ remigibus 



rectricibusquejlavescentibus. 

 Yellowish Finch, with the breast and abdomen whitish, quills 



and tail-feathers flavescent. 

 Fringilla brachyura. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 920. — Lath. InchOm. 



1. 436. 10. 

 Passerculus bononiensis. Bris. 3. 93. 

 Short-tailed Sparrow. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 255.8. 



This species has the tail remarkably short : it 

 is about the size of the House Finch, and has 

 the whole of the body yellowish ; but the breast, 

 and abdomen, are palest ; and the beak very dark 

 yellow. Native of Bologna. 



