116. BuL- 
FINCH. 
BULL FIN CH Geer 
of apples, and are faid to divide an apple with one 
ftroke of the bill to get at the contents. Linneus* 
fays, that the upper mandible of this bird is move- 
able; but on examination we could not difcover its 
ftructure to differ from that of others of the genus. 
It is an undoubted fact, that thefe birds change 
their colors; or rather the fhades of their colors: 
that is, the males which are red, vary at certain 
feafons to deep red, to orange, or to a fort of a 
yellow: the females which are green, alter to dif- 
ferent varieties of the fame color. | 
Le Pivoine. Belon av. 359. Pl. enl, 145. 
Afprocolos, off. 13. Monachino, Sufolotto. Zizaz. 
Rubicilla, jive pyrrhula. Ge/- 58. 
mer AV. 733- Loxia pyrrhula. Liz. f/?. 300. 
Aldr. av. UU. 326. Domherre. Faun. Suec. fp. 
Ciufolotto. Olina, 40. 225. 
Bulfinch, Alp, or Nope. Wi/. Gumpl. Kram. 365. Gimpl. 
orn. 247. Scopoli, No. 202. 
Raii. fyn. av. 86. Danis & Norvegis Dom-pape, 
Blutfinck, Fri/ch, I. 2. quibufdam Dow=terre. Br. 
Le Bouvreuil. Brifin av. Ul. 240. 
308. Br. Zool. 106. plate U. f. 3.4. 
HE wild note of this bird is not in the left 
mufical; but when tamed it becomes re- 
markably docil, and may be taught any tune after 
a pipe, or to whiftle any notes §in the jufteft man- 
ner: it feldom forgets what it has learned; and 
* Faun. Suec. fp. 224. 
will 
