90 DESERT TRUMPETER BULLFINCH. 



light colour, or dull isabelle yellow, which Dr. Bolle 

 says Degland wrongly ascribes to the female. This 

 colour goes downwards from the throat without any 

 streaks, and gradually blends into whitish.; there is no 

 trace of red, not even on the almost isabelle yellow 

 tint. The under tail coverts are yellowish; greater and 

 lesser wing coverts, wings, and tail have a darkish 

 brown colour, with a speckled grey yellow on both 

 edges; beak and feet flesh-colour. (Bolle.) 



My figure of this bird is a male sent to me by Mr. 

 Tristram, and marked "Biskara, 22nd. Jan., 1857." The 

 egg is also from a specimen sent me by the same 

 gentleman. 



The bird has also been figured by Temminck et 

 Laugier, planche color, 400, figs. 1 and 2; Eoux, Or- 

 nith. Prov., vol. i., supp. plate 74, bis, young male in 

 autumn plumage; Gould, B. of E., pi. 208. 



The following have been by various authors admitted 

 into the European list of the genus Pyrrhula: — 



1- — Pyrrhula coccinea, Selys. — The Greater Bullfinch, 

 (Boucreuil po?iceau of the French,) differs in nothing 

 whatever from the Common Bullfinch except in size, 

 and having rather more white on the rump, and the 

 band of this colour across the wings being rather broader. 

 We are informed by Dubois (Oiseaux de la Belgique, 

 p. 125,) that it never mixes with the common species. 

 It was first introduced as a distinct race by Vieillot, 

 Diet., 1817, and after by M. Le Baron Selys-Longchamps, 

 in his "Faune Beige." Schlegel, however, in his "Ee- 

 vue Critque," 1844, declined to admit it as a distinct 

 species, having never seen it in nature. De Selys 

 himself only considered it as a local race of the Common 

 Bullfinch. Degland admits it into his "Ornithologie 



