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The great pied Mountain-Finch or Bramlin : Mpntifringilla Calcaribus Alauda? feu major, 



JT is equal in bignefs to the common Lar^ from the tip of the Bill to the end of 

 the Tail being five inches and a quarter long 5 and between the extremes of the 

 Wings ftretched"out twelve and three quarters broad. Its Bill is half an inch long, of 

 a yellow colour, with a black tip. The end of the Tongue is divided into filaments. 

 Thetop of the Head of afulvous red, darker toward the Bill. [ Mr. Johnfin attri- 

 butes to the Head and upper part of the Neck a dusky red or chefnut colour. ] The 

 upper fide of the Neck, the Rump and (ides are alfo red : So is the Breaft, but paler, 

 the reft of the under fide, Throat, Belly, Wings, &c. is white. The underfideof the 

 Neck, the Back and fcapular feathers are elegantly variegated with black and areddifh 

 afh-colour, the middle part of each feather being black, and the outfidesred. The 

 black fpots appear of a triangular figure. In the upper part of the Wings and bottom 

 of the Back there is more of red. 



Each wing hath eighteen prime feathers, of which the eight outmoft or longeft are 

 black 5 yet their bottoms, as far as they are hidden by the fecond row, except the outer 

 edge of the outmoft feather are white: Moreover, the very tips, or rather edges of 

 the tips of all excepting the two outmoft, are white. The feven next, which 

 take up the middle part of the Wing, are wholly white, fave that near the tip on the 

 outfide each feather hath an oblong black fpot. The remaining three or four next the 

 body are black, having their uppermoft edges red. All the covert-feathers of the 

 Wings, excepting thofe next the body, and two or three, which make up the baftard 

 Wing, are white 5 thofe excepted being black. But Nature (as I fee ) obfervesnot 

 an exact rule in the colours of this birds Wings : For in the bird defcribed by Mx.Wil* 

 lughby the covert-feathers of the black quils were for the moft part black, of the white 

 ones white : Yet in general in all birds that we have feen there were large white (paces 

 in each Wing. The Tail is fomewhat forked, two inches and an half long, made up 

 of twelve feathers, the two outmoft whereof on each fide being wholly white, fave a 

 very little of the outer edge toward the tip, which is black, more nvthe outmoft, lefs 

 in the next. The outward Web of the third on each fide almoft from thetop quite 

 down to the bottom is white: The remaining fix are black, having only their edges 

 about their tips white. The Legs, Feet, and Claws are cole-black. The back-Claw 

 or Spur is longer than the reft, as in Larks ■, of about half an inch. The outmoft Toe 

 for a good fpace from the divarication is joynedto the middle one, as in moft fmall 

 birds. 



This Bird W.Willughby found and killed in Lincoln fiire. Mr. Johnfin lent us the 

 Bird it felf, and the defcription of it out of the Northern part of Torkshire. 



The fame My. Johnfin fent alfo the defcription of another bird of this kind by the 

 name of The lejfer Mountain-Finch or Bramlin, together with the cafe of the Bird 5 

 which by the cafe I took to be only the Female of the precedent,he from its difference 

 in bignefs, place,and other accidents rather judges it a diftinct (pedes. I {hall therefore 

 prefent the Reader with his defcription of it. 



It is of the bignefs of a yellow Finch, hatha thick, ftiort, ftrong Neb, black at the 

 very point, and the reft yellow. All the forehead of a dark chefnut, almoft black, 

 growing lighter backwards, about and under either Eye lighter chefnut : The back of 

 the Neck afti-coloured, which goes down the Back to the Tail, but there more (pot- 

 ted with black. Under the Throat white, but Breaft and Belly dafht or waved with 

 flame-colour, at thefetting on of the Wing grey. The firft five feathers blackiih 

 brown, all the reft white, fave a little daih of brown near the point of each feather. 

 The Tail confifts of twelve feathers, the three outmoft on either fide white, fave a 

 little fmalldaih of dark brown: The reft dark brown. The Feet perfedly black, 

 The hind-claw as long again as any of the reft. 



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