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TREE FINCH. 

 ( Fringilla montana.) 



Fr. remigibus rectricibusque fuscis, corpore griseo nigroque, 



alarum fascia alba gemina. 

 Finch with the quill and tail-feathers fuscous, the body black 



and grey, with a double white band on the wings. 

 Fringilla montana. Lin. Syst. Nat. l. 234. 37. — Lin. Faun. Suec. 



243.— Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q25.—Lath. bid. Orn. 1. 433. 2. 

 Loxia hamburgia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 854. 

 Pyrrhtila hamburgensis. Bris. 3. 314. 2. 

 Le Hambourroux. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 398. 

 Passer montanus. Bris. 3. 79. 2. 



Friquet. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 489. 29. 2. — Buff. PL Enl. 

 267. f. I. 



Hamburgh Tree Creeper. Albin. Birds. 3. 24. 



Hamburgh Grosbeak. Lath. Gen, Syn. 3. 149- 64. 



Tree Finch. Penn. Brit. Zool. 128. — Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 246. — 

 Albin. 3. 66. — Letvin. Brit. Birds. 2. 78. — Edwards. 269. — 

 Montagu. Brit. Birds. 2. — Mont. Sup. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 

 252. 2.— Lath. Syn. Sup. 163. — Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 158. 



Rather less than the House Finch : beak black : 

 irides hazel : crown of- the head and hinder 

 part of the neck chesnut colour : sides of the 

 head white : throat black : behind the eyes a large 

 black spot : upper part of the body rusty brown, 

 spotted with black -. breast and under parts dirty 

 white : quills black, with reddish margins ; greater 

 coverts the same ; lesser coverts bay, edged with 

 black, and barred with two white stripes : tail 

 reddish brown : legs pale yellow : female similar 



