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GRANIVOILE. 



Family FRIGILLID^E. f Bonaparte. J 



Genus Fringilla. (Linnceus.) 



SERIN FINCH. 



Fringilla serinus. 



Fringilla serinus, 

 Pyrrhula serinus, 



Serinus flavescens, 



" brumalis, 



" hortulanus, 



" meridionalis et islandicus, 

 Serin Finch, 

 Serin cini, 



Gemeiner griingimpel or girlitz, 

 Verzellino, 

 Rapcrino, Verdolini, 



Serino d' Italia, 

 Crespolino, 



Linn^us. Temminck. 



ScHLEGEL. DeGLAND. 



Keyseeling et Blasius. 

 Gould. Bonaparte. 

 Strickland. 

 Koch. 



BoNAEARTE. 



Latham; Syn., vol. iii, p. 296. 

 Of the French. 

 Oe the Germans. 

 Save 



Stoe. 



Of the Tuscans. 



Specific Characters. — The back olivaceous, marked with longi- 

 tudinal blackish spots; vertex pale olivaceous yellow; primaries 

 and tail feathers dusky brown. Length four inches and a half; 

 carpus to tip two inches and seven-eighths; tarsus nine lines; 

 beak four lines. 



The Serin Finch is an inhabitant of Southern 

 Europe. It is found plentifully in Spain, the south 



