GREATEST BULFINCH. 
being the undoubted female, though we have 
little or no doubt on the subje£l. His words 
are — " I take it to be it's hen ; though, possibly, 
it may be a younger bird not arrived to per- 
feaion.'* 
The figure, and description, which we shall 
give under the name of the Female Greatest 
Bulfinch, will enable our readers to judge for 
; themselves, whether the differences are, or are 
not, any thing more than sexual; on which 
subje61:, with respe61: to birds not thoroughly 
known, there is often the greatest degree of 
uncertainty. 
