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LAPLAND FINCH. 

 (Fringilla lapponica.) 



Fr. capite-nigi'o, corpore] griseo nigroque, superciliis albis, rectri- 



cibus extimis macula alba cuneiformi. 

 Finch with a black head, body black and grey, supercilia white, 



and outer tail-feathers with a white wedge-shaped spot. 

 Fringilla lapponica. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 317- 1« — Lin. Faun. 



Suec. 235. — G?nel. Syst. Nat. 1. 900. — Lath. hid. Orn. 1. 



440. 18. 

 Fringilla montana. Bris. 3. 160. 38. 

 Le grand Montain. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 134. 

 Greater Brambling. Alhin. 3. 63. 

 Lapland Finch. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 259. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 



3. 263. 14. 



The Lapland Finch is larger than the Chaf- 

 finch, being six inches and a half in length : beak 

 horn- colour, tipped with black : head blackish, 

 spotted with reddish white : upper part of the 

 neck, back, and body, rufous, with brown spots : 

 behind each eye a white lunulated spot : lesser 

 wing-coverts pale rufous ; middle ones black, with 

 yellow margins, and white tips, forming a bar of 

 that colour on the wing : quills black, edged with 

 pale yellowish green : throat, fore-part of the 

 neck, and breast, pale rufous : belly, thighs, and 

 vent, white : tail black, edged with pale greenish 

 yellow, and slightly forked : legs black : female 

 paler than the male. 



This species is a native of Lapland, and part of 

 Siberia, and occasionally the fields of the inner 



