FINCH. 69 



wings and tail dusky, the last even at the end ; outer edges of the 

 quills fringed with orange, and the ends of the prime ones black. 

 Inhabits Sandwich Islands. — In the Leverian Museum. 



27 —ROSY FINCH. 



Fring-illa rosea, Ind. Orn. i. 444. 33. Pall. It. iii. 699. Gm. Lin. i. 923. Shaw's 



Zool. ix. 449. 

 Pyrvhula erythrina, Tern. Man. 205. Id. Ed. ii. 337. 

 Loxia erythrina, Gm. Lin. i. 864. N. C. Petr. xiv. 587. t. 23. f. 1, 



cardinalis, der Haubenblutfink, Bes. Vog. Kur I. 77. No. 166. 



Rosy Finch, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii, 207. 



LENGTH near five inches, weight five drams. Bill brownish 

 horn-colour: lore grey; head, neck, and throat, red; lower part of 

 the neck whitish ; nape and back cinereous, with a reddish tinge ; 

 wing coverts brown, with reddish edges ; quills the same, margined 

 with luteous ; body beneath white, tinged with red on the breast 

 and sides; tail rather forked, the shafts of the feathers brown, with 

 luteous margins; legs as the bill. 



The female wholly yellowish ash-colour above, marked on the 

 crown with yellowish spots ; sides of the head almost white ; chin 

 white; on the neck a few obscure brown marks; tail dusky brown, 

 margined with grey. 



Inhabits the thick woods about the Volga and Samara, and there 

 called the Red Sparrow — is a tame, foolish bird : the female makes a 

 nest of hay, between the branches of trees ; found in small numbers 

 in winter, among the flocks of Snow-flakes, and feeds on the seeds 

 of plants ; is met with also in Siberia, about the River Tomsck. 



In Pallas's bird the feathers round the base of the bill are silvery 

 white, and the margins of the tail feathers rose-colour. 



M. Temminck takes in my Crimson-crowned Finch, as one of the 

 synonyms to this species, but I can scarcely be persuaded to join him 

 in the same opinion ; more especially as in the former the whole of 

 the feathers of the crown are somewhat lengthened, and appear 



