60 FINCH. 



and on the sides with black ; face and cheeks white, dotted with 

 black; chin ferruginous; breast ferruginous ash-colour; belly and 

 vent ash-colour ; tail black. 



This is probably allied to the last, but the place where it is found 

 is not mentioned in the Jfflus. Carls, where only we have seen it. 



15.— BRAMBLING FINCH. 



Fringilla montifringilla, Ind. Orn. i. 439. Lin. i. 318. Faun. Suec. No. 223. Gm. 



Lin. i. 902. Amcen. ac. iv. 596. Scop. i. No. 218. Raii, 88. Will. 187. t. 45. 



Bris. iii. 155. Id. 8vo. i. 349. Klein, 96. 2. Id. Stem. 19. t. 19. f. 16. a— c. 



Brun. No. 255, 256. Midler, No. 256. Kramer, 367. 3. Frisch, t. 3 ? Borowsk. 



iii. 136. t. 62. A. Naturf. xiii. 185. Faun. Helvet. Sepp, Vog. iii. t. 116. 



Tern. Man. d'Orn. 221. Id. Ed. ii. 361. S/miv's Zool. ix. 444. pi. 65. 2. 

 Der Bergfinke, Naturf. xvii. 99. Id. xxii. s. 132. (Tunnenfinke). 

 Pincon des Ardennes, Buf. iv. 124. PI. enl. 54. 2. 

 Fringilla montana, Roman. Orn. 146. t. 22. 2. Gerin. iii. t. 338. 

 Fringuello montanino, Olin. Uc. t. p. 32. 

 Brambling, or Mountain Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 261. Br. Zool. No. 126. Id. 1812. 1. 



p. 454. Id.fol. 108. t. V. f. 4. Arct. Zool. ii. 381. E. Albin. iii. pi. 64. Collins 



Birds, pi. 12. f. 3. & pi. 4. f. 11. Will. Engl. 254. pi. 45. Hayes Birds, pi. 36. 



Bewick's Birds, i. pi. p. 163. Lewin, Birds, ii. pi. 80. Walcot, ii. pi. 218. 



Donov. iv. pi. 85. Pult. Cat. Dors. p. 12. Ornith. Diet. 



LENGTH six inches and a quarter. Bill yellowish, with a black 

 tip ; head, neck behind, and back black, the feathers margined with 

 rufous brown ; rump white ; throat, fore part of the neck, and breast, 

 pale rufous orange ; lower part of the breast and belly white ; lesser 

 wing coverts pale rufous ; the middle ones rufous white ; the greatest 

 black, tipped with white, and those nearest the body with pale 

 rufous; quills brown, with yellowish edges; tail a little forked; legs 

 grey. The female has the colours less defined ; is brown where the 

 male is black ; and rufous grey instead of rufous. 



This species migrates into England at certain seasons, but rarely, 

 if ever, breeds here;* is frequently found among the Chaffinches 5 



* Mr. Bewick mentions their having been seen on the Cumberland Hills, in the month 

 of August. 



