Class II. 



GOLD FINCH, 



447 



GENUS XXIII. FINCH. 



Bill perfectly conic, slender towards the end, 

 and sharp-pointed. 



Fringilla Carduelis. Fr. remi- 

 gibus antrorsum luteis, ex- 

 tima immaculata, rectrici- 

 bus duabus, extimis medio 

 reliquisqueapicealbis. Lath. 

 Ind. orn. 449 . id. Syn. iii. 

 231. 



Belon av. 353. 



Carduelis. Gesner av. 242. 



Aldr. av. ii. 34g. 



Cardelli. Olina, 10. 



Goldfinch, or Thistlefinch. 

 Wil. orn. 256. 



Raii Syn. av. 8Q. 



Le Chardonneret. Brisson av. 



iii. 53. Hist, d'ois. iv. 187. 



PL Enl.4. f. 1. 

 Cardellino. Zinan. 5Q. 

 Fringilla Carduelis. Gm. Lin. 



903. 

 Stiglitza. Faun. Suec. sp. 236. 

 Stiglitz. Br. 257. Scopoli, 



No. 211. 

 Stiglitz. Kram. 365. Distel- 



fincko Frisch, i. 1. 

 Br. Zool. 108. plate v. f. 1- 



Arct. Zool. ii. 73. 



1. Gold, 



J- HIS is the most beautiful of our hard billed 

 small birds ; whether we consider its colors, 

 the elegance of its form, or the music of its 

 note. The bill is white, tipt with black, the 

 base surrounded with a ring of rich scarlet 

 feathers : from the corners of the mouth to the 

 eyes is a black line ; the cheeks are white ; the 

 top of the head black, and the white on the 

 cheeks is bounded almost to the forepart of the 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



