FINCH. 57 



12— CHAFFINCH. 



Fringilla Coelebs, Ind. Orn. i. 437. Lin. i. 318. 3.— male, |3. female, - Faun. suec. 



No. 232. Amcen. ac. iv. 595. Gm. Lin. i. .901. Rait, 88. 16. A. W 7 i//. 186. t. 



45. f. 4. £m. iii. 148. Jtf. 8vo. i. 347. Klein, 96. 1. Id. ov. 29. t.9. f.9. & 10. 



Scop. i. No. 217. Brun. No. 253. 4. Muller, No. 255. Kramer, 367. Frisch, 



t. 1. Sepp, Fog. t. p. 141. Faun. Arag. 87. Borowsk. iii. 137. 2. Roman. Orn. 



i. 142. t.22. f. 11. Faun. Helvet. Gerin. iii. t. 337. 1. Shaic's Zool.'ix. pi. 65. 



Tern. ./Haw. d'O™. 219. Jd. £d. ii. p. 357. 

 Der Buckfinke, Naturf. xvii. 93. Sclimid, Fog. p. 78. t. 65. 

 Le Pincon, J5w/. iv. 109. f. 4. P/. enl. 54. 1. 



Fringuello, O/Zra. t. p. 31. Zinnan. Uov. 61. t. 9. f. 52. Cet. uc. Sard. 203. 

 Finck, Wirsing, Vog. t. 19. Gunth. av. t. 19. 

 Chaffinch, Gen. Syn. iii. 257. Id. Sup. 165. Br. Zool. i. No, 125. Id. 1812. 1. p. 



452. Id. fol. 108. t. 5. f. 2. 3. ^rci. Zool. ii. 381. F. Co/fois, Birds, pi. II. f. 



3. 4. Rus.Alep. 70. ^/iiw, i. 63. /d. So^g- Birds, pi. p. 25. Bolton, Birds, 



pi. 23. 24. Bewick, Birds, i. pi. p. 160. Lewin, Birds, ii. pi. 79. Walcot, ii. 



pi. 217. Pit/?. Caf. Dor*. Orn. Diet. 



SOMEWHAT less than the Sparrow. Bill whitish, inclining 

 more or less to blue, tip black ; irides hazel ; forehead black ; crown, 

 nape, and sides of the neck, bluish ash-colour ; sides of the head s 

 throat, and neck before, reddish ; back chestnut brown, greenish on 

 the rump ; belly, thighs, and vent, rufous white ; on the wing coverts 

 a large white patch, and a bar of the same on the greater ones; tail 

 black, a little forked ; the outer feather has a longitudinal streak 

 placed obliquely, and the next to it a spot of white, near the tip of 

 the inner web ; legs brown. 



The colours in the female are more dull, inclining to green, the 

 vinaceous red colour is wanting ; breast and belly dirty white ; the 

 rest as in the male. 



This in England is one of our most common Species;* makes 

 the nest in a well-clothed bush, not very high, formed of fibres of 

 plants and moss, lined with hair, wool, feathers, &c. the eggs are 

 five or six in number, of a pale reddish grey, marked with blackish 



* It is called by different names a Pink, or Tvvink, Beech, and Horse-finch. 



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