Oafs II. BULF1NCH, ^ 



III. The BULFINC H. 



Le Pivoine. Belon av. 359. LcJBouvreuil. BriJ/bnav. iii. 308, 



Afprocolos, obf. 13. PI. enl. 145. 



Kubicilla, five pyrrhula. Gefner Monachino,Sufolotto. Zinan. 58. 



«<y. 733. Loxia pynhula. Lin.fyji.^oo. 



Aldr. av. ii. 326. Domherre. Faun. Suec.fp. 22c. 



Ciufolotto. Olina 40. Gumpl. Kram. 365. 



Bulfinch, Alp, or Nope. £T/7. $r». ZXz«m & Norvegis Dom-pape, oft. 



247. £»/2/««Dom-Herre. 5r. 240. 



Raiifyn. av. 86. j&r. Zee/. 106. plate U. f. 3. 4. 



'TT^HE wild note of this bird is not in the left mu- 

 •*' fical ; but when tamed it becomes remarkably 

 docil, and may be taught any tune after a pipe, or to 

 whittle any notes in thejutteft manner : itfeldom for- 

 gets what it has learned. A gentleman in Lancajloire y 

 had one that could whittle, feveral tunes ; and was fo 

 well difciplined, that it would come at call, perch on 

 its matter's fhoulders, and (at command) go through 

 a difficult mufical leiTon. They may be taught to 

 fpeak, and fome thus inftrucled are annually brought 

 to London from Frankfort on the Maine. 



The male is dittinguimed from the female by the D e {* cr> 

 fuperior blacknefs of its crown, and by the rich crirn- 

 fon that adorns the cheeks, breatt, belly, and throat of 

 the male •, thofe of the female being of a dirty buff 

 color : the bill is black, fhort and very thick : the 

 head large : the hind part of the neck and the back 

 are grey : the coverts of the wings are black • the 

 lower croffed with a white line : the qiiil -feathers 

 dusky, but part of their inner webs white ; the coverts 



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