94 DESERT TRUMPETER BULLFINCH. 



twelve tail feathers brassy-black, the tip of each external 

 margin white, the rest shaded with rose. The thighs 

 are feathered to the knee, and grey; the tarsus and 

 toes, of which there are three before and one behind, 

 of a black colour, claws incurved, acuminate, black, 

 equal anteriorly, the hind one longest. Length eight 

 inches, of wings four inches nine lines, tarsus one inch 

 one line, middle toe nine lines, hind toe five lines." 



Figured by Guldenstadt, Nov. Comm. Petr. xix, pi. 

 12. 



I have thought it right to give a translation of the 

 principal part of Guldenstadt's diagnosis of this bird, and 

 regret that I have not a specimen to figure, although 

 confined as it is to neutral ground, its claims to Euro- 

 pean rank are very slight. 



