ROSY BULLFINCH. 79 



The head and neck are carmine red, with a brown 

 grey sparkling through it, so that the feathers (like, 

 in fact, those of the whole bird,) are more or less 

 dark, having a ground of grey and white, and the red 

 colouring only taking possession of the tips or edges 

 of the feathers. On the temples, the hinder part of 

 the head, the throat, to the middle of the breast, and 

 the rump, this colouring is the brightest, a deep 

 brilliant rose red; and on the sides of the breast dark 

 brown arrow-shaped spots on a whitish ground, be- 

 coming larger on the flanks, with, on this part of the 

 body, a yellow white tinge; the belly and under wing 

 coverts are white, with rosy red borders. There is 

 one peculiarity to be noticed, namely, that in this 

 northern bird, as well as in the male of Pyrrhula 

 longicaada, Temminck, which is the Loxia Sibirica of 

 Pallas, the feathers of the vertex and throat have a 

 silvery scaly appearance, and the barbs of the feathers, 

 as well as their points, have a bright shining white 

 colour. The shoulders and upper part of the back are 

 dark brown, spotted with red streaks; the dark brown 

 feathers of this part have borders of carmine red; the 

 greater feathers of the shoulders have also white bor- 

 ders. All the wing feathers have a dull dark brown 

 ground; the lesser wing feathers carmine red borders, 

 the greater, broad white borders, with rosy red tips. 

 The greater wing coverts rosy red borders with white 

 tips, forming two oblique borders of white across the 

 wings. The upper tail coverts bright red, with dark 

 brown arrow-spots, and the darker brown tail feathers, 

 of which the outermost are merely somewhat lighter, 

 have rosy red borders; the underneath wing and tail 

 feathers are light brown grey; the under wing coverts 

 dirty white, spotted with brown, having, at the edges, 

 a tinge of rosy red. 



