FINCH. 99 



A. — Linaria minima, Bris. iii. 142. Id. 8vo. i. 345. Faun. Helvet. 



■ pectore Subluteo. Klein, Av. p. 93. 

 Le Cabaret, Buf. iv. 76. PI. enl. 485. f. 2. 

 Fanello dell'Aquila, Olin. Uc. t. p. 8. 

 Twite, Gen. Syn. iii. 307. Var. A. 



Length four inches and a half. Bill yellowish, with a brown 

 tip ; top of the head and rump red ; over the eyes a rufous band ; 

 upper parts in general blackish, the feathers edged with rufous ; 

 beneath rufous, spotted with blackish on the throat; belly white; 

 legs brown, or black ; claws long, especially the hind one ; between 

 the bill and eye a black brown spot, and on the chin another. 



The female differs from the male, in wanting the red on the rump, 

 otherwise resembles the male ; so far from Brisson, who gives the 

 Twite of Albin as synonimous, which probably rather belongs to 

 the one so called below, and this bird only a Variety of the Lesser 

 Red-headed Linnet. 



62.— ARCTIC FINCH. 



Fringilla flavirostris, Ind. Orn. i. 438. Lin. i. 322. Faun. Suec. No. 239. Midler, 

 No. 260. Pall. It. ii. 710. Gm. Lin. i. 915. Shaw's Zool. ix. 523. Tern. Man. 

 228. Id. Ed. ii. 375. 



Arctic Finch, Gen. Syn. iii. 260. Arct. Zool. ii. 379. A. 



IN this the bill is like yellow wax, with a brown tip ; plumage 

 in general obscure sooty brown, paler beneath ; the feathers of the 

 breast varied with garnet-colour at the tips; quills and tail dusky, 

 edged with grey, the last somewhat forked ; legs black : the female 

 inclines more to brown. 



Inhabits Norway, and the north-east part of Siberia, very common 

 in the winter ; migrates southward, frequenting inhabited places, and 

 is seen about barns, being a tame species ; common about the Jenisei 

 in the severest part of winter, returning north earlier than the Snow 



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