454 



BRAMBLING FINCH. Class II. 



It arrives in Italy in April, and departs in 

 October ; but many winter there. 



3. Bram- 



BLING. 



Fringilla montifringilla. Fr. 

 nigra pennis rufo margina- 

 tis, subtus uropygioque alba, 

 jugulo pectoreque rufescen- 

 tibus, rectricibus lateralibus 

 nigricantibus, extus albo 

 marginatis. Lath. hid. orn. 

 439. id. Syn. iii. 26l. 



Le Montain. Belon av. 372. 



Montifringilla montana. Ges- 

 ner av. 388. 



Aldr. av. ii. 358. 



Fringuello montanina. Olina, 

 32. 



Bramble, or Brambling. Wil. 

 orn. 254. 



Mountain-finch. Rail Syn. 

 av. 88. 



Le Pincon d'ardennes. Bris- 



son av. iii. 155. Hist, d'ois. 



iv. 124. PL Enl. 54. f. 2. 

 Fringilla Montifringilla. Gm. 



Lin. g02. 

 Pinosch. Scopoli. No. 218. 

 Norquint. Faun. Suec. sp, 



233. 

 Quaeker, Bosinkens Hore- 



Unge, Akerlan. Brunnich, 



255. 

 NicowitZj Meeker, Piencken. 



Kram. 367. 

 Bergfinck (Mountainfinch). 



Frisch, i. 3. 

 Br. Zool. 108. plate V. f. 4. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 71« 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



XHIS bird is not very common in these 

 islands. It is superior in size to the chaffinch : 

 the top of the head is of a glossy black, slightly 

 edged with a yellowish brown ; the feathers of 

 the back are of the same colors, but the edges 

 more deeply bordered with brown; the chin, 

 throat, and breast, are of an orange color ; the 

 lesser coverts of the wings of the same color, 

 but those incumbent on the quil feathers barred 



