•Clals II. GREATER BRAMBLING. 321 



feather is white. The head of the female is ru it- 

 colored, fpotted with black •, it wants the white 

 ring round the neck ; but in moil other refpects re- 

 fembles the male. 



IV. The GREATER BRAMBLING. 



Avlsignota aPiperino mifla. Gef- Br. 24.-. 



av. 798. Snow-bird. Edw. a<v. 126.. 



Great pied Mountain Finch, or Egede Greenl 64. 



Brambling. Wil. orn. 255. Martin's Spitz&erg. 73. 



Raiifyn. a<v. 88. Emberiza nivalis. Lin.fyft. 308. 



L'Ortolan de Neige, Hortulanus Snofparf, Haidvarsfogei. Faun. 



nivalis. Brijfon a<v. iii. 285. Suec. (p. 227. 



Cimbris Sneekok. Vinter fug!. Br. Zoo/. 1 1 2. plate f. 6. 



Narnjeg. Snee fugl. Fiadikr. 



HE weight of this bird is rather more than an Defer, 

 ounce : the length is fix inches three-quarters: 

 the breadth twelve inches three-quarters. The bill 

 is very fhort •, yellow, except the point, which is 

 black. The crown of the head is of a tawny color, 

 darkefl near the forehead : the whole neck is of the 

 fame color, but paler,: the throat al moil white : the 

 upper part of the breail is of a dull yellow ; the 

 breail and whole under part of the body white, dafhed 

 with a yellowifh tinge. The back and fcapular fea- 

 thers are black, edged with a pale reddifh brown: 

 the rump and covert feathers of the tail are white 

 on their lower half; on their upper, yellow. 



The tail confiils of twelve feathers, and is a little 

 forked : the three exterior feathers are white : the 

 two outmoft marked with a dusky fpot on the ex- 



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