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BULLFINCH GROSBEAK. 

 (Loxia Pyrrhula.) 



L. cinerea, capite nigra, tectricibus caudce remigiumque posticarum 

 ctlbis. 



Cinereous Grosbeak, with the head black ; wing-coverts, and 



hinder part of the quills, white. 

 Loxia Pyrrhula. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 300. 4. — Lin. Faun. Suec. 



225. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 846.—Raii. Syn. 86. A. — Briss. 3. 



308. I.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 387.56. - 

 Bouvreuil. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 372. XJ.—Biiff. VI. Enl. 145. 

 Bullfinch. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 1 16. — Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 353. a. 



Albin. 1. 59. 60. — Letvin. Brit. Birds. 2. 70. — Bewick. Brit. 



Birds. 1. 138. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 145. 51 .—Lath. Syn. Sup. 



152. — Montagu. Brit. Birds. 1. 



This well known bird has a black, short, and 

 thick beak : irides dusky : the crown of the head 

 black: upper part of the neck and back fine cine- 

 reous grey : cheeks, breast, and belly, crimson : 

 vent white : wing-coverts with a white line run- 

 ning across just above the quills, which are dusky: 

 rump white : tail black : female of a dirty brown ; 

 except the crown of the head and rump, the former 

 black, the latter white: young bird when just 

 hatched very much resembles the female, except 

 that they have no black on the head ; which, with 

 the crimson on the breast of the male, appears 

 about two months after leaving the nest. In con- 

 finement this bird, if fed on hemp-seed, will often 

 become entirely black: it is found quite white, 

 with a tinge of blossom-colour on the top and sides 

 of the head. 



