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CRIMSON-HEADED FINCH. 

 (Fringilla rosea.) 



Fr. cinereo-rubesccns, sublus alba, capitis uropygii gutturisque 

 petinis apice ruberrimis, remigibus rectricibusque fastis margine 

 lutescentibiis. . 



Ash-coloured red Finch; beneath white, with the feathers of the 

 head, rump, and throat, tipped with red ; the quills and tail- 

 feathers fuscous, with yellowish margins. 



Fringilla rosea. /3. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 414. 33. 



Loxia erythrina. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 864. 



Crimson-headed Finch. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 271. 2Q. — Penn. 

 Arct. Zool. 2. 257. ? : 



/S. rosea, capistro argenteo, dorso lituris ex griseo fuscescentibus 

 •carlo, alis caudaque nigricantibus, recticum margine exteriore 

 roseo. 



Rose-coloured, with the capistrum silvery, back varied with grey- 

 brown marks, wings and tail blackish, the exterior tail-fea- 

 thers bordered with rose-colour. 



Fringilla rosea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 444. 33. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 1. 923. 



Rosy Finch. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 207. 3. 



This bird is the size of Loxia Chloris : length 

 about five inches: beak brownish horn- colour; 

 between which and the eyes the colour is ash- 

 coloured-grey : head, neck, and throat, red : lower 

 part of the neck whitish: nape and back cinereous, 

 tinged with red: wing- coverts brown, margined 

 with reddish : quills brown, with luteous borders: 

 under parts white, tinged with red on the breast 

 and sides : tail slightly forked ; shafts of the 

 feathers brown, margins yellowish : legs horn- 



