LOXIA FYRRHULA. 



B U L F I N C H. 



Generic Character. See Loxia Curviroftra. 



Synonyms. 



Loxia Pyrrhula. Lin. Syft. l.p. 300.4. 

 Bulfinch. Br. Zool. 1. 116. Ih.fol. 106. tab. U. fig. 



3, 4. Lath. Syn. 2. p. 143. 51. Ib. Jupt. 



p. 152. Mont. Orn. Dift. BezvicJzs Br. 



Birds ) Pt. 1. p. 160. 



T H E Bulfinch is in length fix inches, in breadth about 

 ten inches, and weighs near three-quarters of an ounce ; bill 

 fhort, very ftrong, the upper mandible is much hooked and is 

 very fharp pointed ; eyes large and black ; legs (lender ; claws 

 long and curved. Colours very fimilarly difpofed in both 

 fexes ; thofe of the female are much duller; both fexes are 

 very fubjec"t to alter in the colours of their plumage, frequently 

 becoming quite black when kept in confinement, fome nearly 

 white have at different times been feen in this country ; we 

 have lately feen one (that was fhot a fhort time fince in the 

 new foreft, Hants) perfectly white ; the part on the head 

 that is ufually black, is diftinguifhed by its being of a different 

 fhade of whitenefs, the bill is of a light brown, legs and claws 

 of the ufual colour. 



This fpecies is very common in every part of this country, 

 and is always an unwelcome gueft in gardens or orchards, 

 where it commits great injury by feeding on the flower buds 

 of moft kinds of fruit-trees, alfo on all forts of {tone fruit ; in 



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