156 FRING1LLID.E. 



the eyelids, lore, and a space beyond the eye black, as well 

 as the radiating hair-like feathers that cover the nostrils and 

 sides of the beak. 



This specimen appears, according to the recent views of 

 ornithologists, to be an adult male, in which opinion Tem- 

 minck, in the fourth volume of his Manuel, seems to co- 

 incide. 



The adult female, of which we have also examined a spe- 

 cimen, through the kindness of W. Yarrell, Esq., has none 

 of the crimson tints that so much beautify the male, but is 

 still a very handsome bird. Her head, nape, and ear- 

 coverts, are bright honey-yellow, rump and upper tail-co- 

 verts the same ; her chin is white, and all the rest of her 

 upper and under plumage clear grey : her wings are dusky, 

 bordered in a manner similar to those of the male with 

 white : her tail is dusky, narrowly bordered with grey : legs 

 and beak as in the male. This specimen was shot at Har- 

 row in Middlesex. 



Young birds of this species resemble the female ; but the 

 colours of their plumage are much obscured with olive and 

 brown. 



The nest of the Pine Bulfinch is described as much re- 

 sembling that of our indigenous species, being composed of 

 small twigs, and lined with feathers, and placed not many 

 feet from the ground. The eggs are described as being 

 white, and measuring about an inch in length. 



