76 PINCH. 



France, and Italy; appears in the latter in April, and breeds there ; also 

 in Spain, comes in prodigious flocks early in the winter to Gibraltar, 

 and continues all that season; disperses in spring; very few seen in 

 summer ; feeds on thistles during their stay : the bird-catchers take 

 them in vast numbers, and keep the stoutest of the males for singing, 

 the rest, with the females, are killed and eaten. Common in Russia, 

 and the greater part of Siberia ; none beyond the Lena, and Lake 

 Baikal ; is found in both Africa* and Asia,f but less common. 



A.— Fringilla leucocephalos, Bris. iii. 57. Id. 8vo. i. 321. Will. 1S9. Id. Engl. 257. 

 Var. 2. Buf. iv. 202. Gen. Syn. iii. 282. 



This is like the Common sort, except about the bill and the eyes, 

 which are white in this, instead of red, as in the Common Species. 



B. — Carduelis capite striato, Bris. iii. 58. B. Id. 8vo. i. 321. Buf. iv. p. 3. Brown, 

 Jam. 468. Gen. Syn. iii. 1S3. B. 



In this the head is striped, alternately, with red and yellow. 



C— Carduelis melanocepbalos, £rw. iii. 58. C. Id. 8vo. i. 322. Buf.\v. 203. 



Spalowsk. Vog. iii. t. 43. 

 Swallow Goldfinch, Albin, iii. 70. a. Gen. Syn. iii. 283. 



Bill flesh-coloured; irides yellowish; the head, throat, and neck 

 black, spotted with red near the bill ; breast, back, scapulars, and 

 rump yellowish brown ; belly, sides, thighs, and under tail coverts 

 white ; the rest as in the Common ; legs flesh-colour. 



* Dr. Forster met with it at Madeira. See Voy. p. 26. 



f At Aleppo. Russ. Alep. p. 70. I have seen it more than once in Chinese drawings, 



though this circumstance will not, perhaps, prove it to be otherwise than a caged bird. I 

 have observed it also, with others, in drawings from India, but whether indigenous to either 

 of the last-named places, could not be ascertained. 



