SCARLET BULLFINCH. iD 



a "brighter colour, namely a dirty yellowish or brown 

 yellowish flesh-colour, the tips of the claws being dark 

 brown. — (Naumann.) 



In the first part of the Bulletin of the Imperial 

 Society of Naturalists of Moscow, for the year 1860, 

 there is an article by Alexander Von Nordmann, 

 upon the birds of Finland and Lapland, in which he 

 states that P. erythrina is very common in Southern 

 Finland, which was not the case, according to the 

 testimony of his father, thirty years ago. It builds 

 every year in the Botanical Gardens at Helsingfors, 

 in the tops of the maple and Carangana Sibirica. It 

 arrives at Helsingfors in the middle of May, and the 

 young are fledged by the 25th. of June. The nest 

 is made loosely of twigs. The eggs are white, with a 

 few, blackish red spots at the large end. The voice 

 of the bird is loud and flute-like, easily recognised 

 again when once heard. It has a call-cry similar to 

 our Greenfinch. — (See "Ibis," January, 1861, p. 111.) 



The figure of my bird is from Naumann. The egg 

 is from Badeker. 



The bird has also been figured by Gould, B. of E., 

 pi. 206; Dubois, Oiseaux de la Belgicpie, pi. 117, (male 

 and female;) Naumann, Natur. der Vogel Deutsch., 

 pi. 113, (male and female.) 



