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ARCTIC FINCH. 

 (Fringilla flavirostris.) 



Fr. Jusca : rostro-Jlavicante, pennis pectoris apice roseis, cauda 

 subforcipata. 



Fuscous Finch, with a yellowish beak ; feathers of the breast 



tipped with rose-colour ; tail slightly forked. 

 Fringilla flavirostris. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 322. 27. — Lin. Faun. 



Suec. 239. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 9 15. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



438. 16. 

 Fringilla fusca. Bris. 3. 154. b. 

 Le Pine on brun. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 4. 121. 

 Arctic Finch. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 379. A. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 



3. 260. 12. 



Of this species the male is entirely of an ob- 

 scure sooty colour ; paler beneath : the feathers 

 on the breast frequently having the tips varied 

 with a garnet colour : quills and tail dusky, edged 

 with grey 5 the latter forked : legs black : female 

 brown, in other respects similar to the male : beak 

 in both sexes yellow, with a brown tip. This bird 

 inhabits Norway and the north-east of Siberia, 

 and is generally seen about barns. 



y. ix. p. 11. 



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