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GRANIVORiE. 



Family FBINGILLID^. (Bonaparte. J 



Genus Fringilla. (Linnceus.) 



Generic Characters — Beak short, strong, convex, straight, 

 and conic; superior mandible dilated, slightly bent at the 

 point; the upper part depressed. Nostrils basal, round, placed 

 near the forehead, behind the horny elevation of the swollen part 

 of the beak, partly hid by the feathers of the forehead. Tarsi 

 shorter than the middle toe. The two or three first wing 

 primaries tapering, the third or fourth the longest. 



CEIMSON-WINGED GKOSBEAK. 



Fringilla coccothraustes phcenicoptera. 



Fringilla rhodoptera, 



L.ICHTENSTEIN 



Montifringilla sanguined, 



Gould. 



Erythrospiza phcenicoptera 





et Hhodopechys phcenicoptera, 



BoNAPAKTE. 



Rhodopechys phcenicoptera, 



Cabanis. 



phcenicoptere, 



LoCHE. 



Specific Characters. — Top of the head in the male black; the 

 first two-thirds of the outer web of all the primaries, except the 

 first, the feathers round the eyes, and the upper tail coverts, rich 

 crimson. Length seven inches; carpus to tip four inches and 

 three-tenths; tarsus ten lines; tail two inches and three-fifths; 

 beak seven lines ; circumference of beak at base one inch and a half. 



