64 PINCH. 



of the feathers paler ; upper tail coverts black ; thighs pale ash- 

 colour; all the under parts of the body snow white; also the wing 

 coverts, and second quills, except the two nearest the body, which 

 are brown ; the bastard wing, and greater quills black ; the two 

 middle tail feathers are black, the others white, tipped with black. 



Inhabits various parts of the European Continent, pai'ticularly 

 near Dauphiny, in France ; also about the snowy tops of the Cauca- 

 sian Mountains, and those of Persia, descending into the plains in 

 winter. 



One in the collection of Mr. Bullock differed in a few particulars; 

 in the middle of the throat was a large patch of black ; the under 

 tail coverts tipped with ash-colour, and the outer tail feathers wholly 

 white ; the bill yellowish. 



A. — Fringilla nivalis, Gm.Lin.i. 911. 21. /3. Gmel. It. iv. 16S. Pall.n.nord. 

 Beytr. iv. 46. 



Length seven inches. Bill black ; head and hind part of the 

 neck cinereous ; back and rump grey brown ; two middle tail feathers 

 black, the rest white, with the tips black. 



Inhabits the Caucasian and Hyrcanian Alps; is also an in- 

 habitant of North America. 



19.— CAPSA FINCH. 



Fringilla Capsa, Ind. Orn. i. 440. Gm. Lin. i. 912. Shaw's Zool. ix. 495. 

 Le Dattier, Buf. iii. 487. Voy. en Barbar. i. 272. 

 Capsa Sparrow, Shaiv's Trav. 253. 

 — Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 265. 



SIZE of a Sparrow. Bill short, and thick ; black above, and 

 beneath yellowish ; about the gape a few bristles ; fore part of the 

 head, and throat white; the rest of the head, the neck, and whole 

 of the body grey, more or less inclining to red, most so on the 



