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FRINGILLID^, 



upper parts of the body, the wing-coverts, and the 

 flanks are of a brown-grey, with the edges of the 

 feathers of a clear grey j which causes the under side 

 of the plumage to appear whitish : the wing and tail- 

 feathers are brown : the sides of the base of the beak 

 and a band through the eyes are black : from the 

 base of the beak to the vent is a black line, which is 

 crossed on the breast by a similar transverse one ter- 

 minating on the sides of the neck : the beak is whitish, 

 and the legs are yellowish-brown. 



Sp. 13. Pa? Dominicanus. 



Loxia Dominicana, /3. Steph. v. ix. p. 276. — BraziL 

 Sp. 14. Pa? cristatus. 



Fringilla cristata. Steph. v. ix. 440. — South America. 



STIRPS v.— PYRRHULINA, Vigors. 

 GENUS CLIX.— PYRRHULA, Brisson. BULFINCH. 



Rostrum robustum, crassum, 

 supra infraque convexum, 

 rotundatum vel utrinque 

 compressum : mandibula 

 inferior subrecurvata ; sit- 

 perior versus apicem cur- 

 vata, persaepe in medio 

 crenata. 



Beak robust, thick, convex 

 above and beneath, round- 

 ed or compressed on each 

 side: the lower mandible 

 somewhat recurved, the 

 upper curved towards the 

 tip, and often crenated in 

 the middle. 



A. Rostrum integrum, rotundatum, breve. 

 A. Beak intire, rounded, short. 



Sp. 1. Pyr. Europsea. Leach, Cat, Brit. Mus.p. 13. 



Loxia Pyrrhula. Steph. v. ix. p. 318. pi, 52.— Britain and 

 Europe. 



