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great numbers are taken by the Bird-catchers;* from this we may 

 suppose they migrate from one country to another at those seasons. 



9— BULFINCH. 



Loxia Pyrrhula, Ind. Orn. i. §87. Lin. i. 300. Gm. Lin. i. 846. Faun. Suec. No. 225. 



Scop. i. No. 202. Rati, 86. A. Will. 1307 t. 43. Frisch, i. t. 2. Bran. 240. 



241. Midler, 247. Kramer, 365. Georgi, 174. Faun. Arag. 86. Sepp, Vog. 



t. p. 133. Borotesk. iii. 135. Scheef. el. t. 59. .Rom. On«. i. 158. t. 24. 2. Geriii. 



iii. t. 331. 332. Band. ii. 409. Shaw's Zool. ix. 318. pi. 52. 

 Pyrrhula, Bris. iii. 308. Id. 8vo. i. 395. 



Coccothraustes sanguinea, Klein, 95. Id. Stem. t. 19. f. 13. a. b. 

 Fringilla Pyrrhula, Tern. Man. d'Orn. 200. Id. Ed. ii. p. 338. 

 Cifoletta, Olin. t. p. 40. Zinnan. Uov. t. 8. f. 48. (Monachino). 

 Gumpel, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 54. Wirs. Vog. t. 11. Naturf. xvii. 88. No. 179. 



Schmid, Vog. p. 76. t. 64. 

 Bouvreuil, Buf. iv. 372. t. 17. P/. enl. 145. ifwf. Prow. i. 514. Robert. Ic. pi. 2. 

 Bulfinch, Gen. Syn. iii. 143. Id. Sup. 152. Br. Zoo/, i. 1 16. Id.fol. 106. t. U. 3. 4. 



/rf. 1812. i. p. 430. Arct. Zool. ii. 353. A. Collinses Birds, pi. 12. f. 4. pi. 7. 



f. 3. ^/6. i. pi. 59. 60. Id. Song Birds, pi. in p. 15. Bradl. Nat. t. 10. 2. 



Will. Engl. 247. pi. 17. Hayes Birds, pi. 37. Graves Br. Birds, ii. pi. 18. 



Lewin's Birds, pi. 70. Beivick, i. pi. p. 130. Walcot, pi. 209. Orn. Xh'er. 



THIS bird is near six inches in length, and extends near nine. 

 The bill very short, thick, and black ; the head, wings, and tail, are 

 black ; breast and belly red ; upper tail coverts and vent white ; the 

 rest of the plumage ash-colour; legs black. 



In the female the under parts are reddish brown. Young birds 

 resemble the females, but the head at first is not black. 



The Bulfinch is a very common species in England, and makes 

 the nest five or six feet from the ground, composed of small twigs, 

 lined with dry fibres, rarely with moss, slovenly put together, being 

 only just firm enough to bear the weight of the eggs and bird, 

 during incubation. The eggs are four or five in number, marked all 

 over with blood red, or purplish spots, most so at the larger end. 



* Mr. White. 



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