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13.— CRIMSON-CROWNED FINCH— Pl. xcv. 



Fringilla flammea, Ind. Orn. i. 438. Lin. i. 322. Faun, sue c. No. 238. Gm. Lin.'i. 



915. Hist. Prov. i. 514. Shaw's Zoo/, ix. 451. pl. 67. 

 Fringilla cristata, Bris. iii. 155. E. Id. 8vo. i. 349. 



Parus oriseus, Ind. Orn. ii. 564. Gm. Lin. i. 1010. Zool. Dan. No. 284. 

 Linaria, seu Luteola nigra, Klein, 93. 

 Der Brandfink, Naturf. xvii. 95. 

 Flaming Finch, Arct. Zool. ii. 380. D. 

 Crimson-crowned Titmouse, Gen. Syn. iv. 539. 

 Crimson-crowned Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 259. pl. 47. 



SIZE of the Redpole ; length near five inches. Upper mandible 

 black, the under dull yellow ; plumage above, the wings, and tail, 

 brown; rump, upper and lower tail coverts, dull rose-colour; all 

 beneath rose-colour ; not unlike the same in the Pine Grosbeak ; 

 vent pale; crown of the head a glowing pale red, bounded on each 

 side, and in front, by a black streak ; the feathers a little elongated, 

 but scarcely to be called a crest ; and at the back squared off" as in 

 the Blue-backed Manakin ; base over the bill pale brown ; cheeks 

 before the eyes pale; tail even ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Norland, and other parts of Sweden.* — In the collection 

 of Lord Stanley. We have included above our Crimson-crowned 

 Titmouse, on full conviction of its being one and the same bird, in 

 immature plumage. 



14— RED-CROWNED FINCH. 



Fringilla ruticapilla, Ind. Orn. i. 43S. Gm. Lin. i. 887. Mus. Carls, ii. t. 44. Shaw's 



Zoo/.ix. 446. 

 Red-crowned Finch, Gen. Syn. Stip. ii. 206. 



IN this bird the bill is brown ; plumage on the upper parts of 

 the body brown ; crown and hindhead reddish ; margined before, 



* Linnaeus. Described by him from Rudbeck's Paintings. I have seen two or three 

 specimens in various collections. 



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