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GP.ANIVORJE. 



Family FRINGILLID^E. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Pyrrhula. (Brisson.) 



EOSY BULLFINCH. 



Pyrrhula rosea. 



Pyrrhula rosea, Temminck. 



Passer roseus, Pallas. 



Fringilla rosea, Of Authors. 



Carpodacus roseus, Kaup. Bonaparte. 



Bouvreuil-rose Pallas, Of the French. 



Sibirischer Posengimpel, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — The vertex red, with silver- white spots; 

 throat also mottled with crimson and white; rump crimson or 

 yellowish white; two transverse bands of white across the wiDgs. 

 Length' five inches and a half, French, (Temminck,) six inches 

 and a half, German, (Naumann;) expanse of wings eleven inches 

 and a half; length of somewhat notched and forked tail two 

 inches and five-eighths. The wing does not reach to half the 

 length of the tail; the club-shaped beak five and a half lines; 

 tarsus three-quarters of an inch; middle toe and claw seven 

 lines; hinder toe and claw rather over six lines; leg and toes 

 covered with scales. — (Naumann.) 



The Rosy Bullfinch is described by Naumann as 

 the most beautiful of our Northern European birds. 

 Closely allied to the last species, it yet differs from 

 it in size and ornamentation. Its beak is truite dif- 



