CRIMSON-NECKED BULLFINCH. 205 
authority of Say, we consider it as new, notwithstanding these 
doubts. 
The crimson-necked bullfinch was procured by Lone’s party 
near the Rocky Mountains, and Say described it in the 
journal of that expedition under the name of Pringilla fron- 
talis, adopting that genus in the comprehensive limits assigned 
by Illiger and Cuvier. The specific name given by Say is 
preoccupied in that genus by an African species, but as we 
consider our bird a Pyrrhula, we think proper to retain his 
name, 
The crimson-necked bullfinch is five inches and a half long. 
The bill and feet are horn colour; the lower mandible is 
paler; the irides are dark brown; the head, neck beneath, 
and superior portion of the breast, are brilliant crimson, most 
intense near the bill and over the eye; the space between the 
bill and the eye is cinereous grey, as well as the cheeks, and 
the small feathers immediately around the bill; the crimson 
feathers are brown at base, being red only at tip; the occiput, 
and the neck above and on each side, are brown, with a 
reddish cast, the feathers being margined with pale ; the back 
is dusky brownish ; the rump and superior tail-coverts are 
crimson, but less vivid than that of the head; the inferior 
portion of the breast, the belly, and vent, are whitish, each 
feather having a broad fuscous line; the general plumage is 
lead colour at base.. The wings are blackish brown, the 
primaries being broadly margined within, towards the base, 
with whitish, and exteriorly edged with greyish ; the coverts 
and secondaries are edged with dull greyish ; the tail is black- 
ish brown, hardly emarginated; the lateral feathers are edged 
on the inner side with whitish. 
Such is the description of our male specimen ; but as it 
was procured when summer was far advanced, a season in 
which the plumage begins to fade, it is proper to observe 
that the colouring of this bird is probably much more brilliant 
in its full spring dress, the erimson extending much farther 
down on the back, &c. As the season advances, the tips of 
