LOXIA PYRRHULA. 
B U L F I N C H, 
Generic Character, See Loxia Curviroftra. 
Synonyms. 
Loxia Pyrrhula. Lin. Syjl. \,p, 300.4. 
BuL FINCH. Br, Zool. 1. 116. Ih,fol, 106. tab, U, Jig» 
3,4. Latb, Syn. 2. p. 143. 51. Ih./upt, 
p. 152. Mont. Orn. Di^, Bewick's Br, 
Birds, Pt. 1. p. 160. 
T H E BuL FINCH is in length fix inches, in breadth about 
ten inches, and weighs near three-quarters of an ounce ; bill 
fhort, very ftrong, the upper mandible is much hooked and is 
very fharp pointed ; eyes large and black ; legs {lender ; claws 
long and curved. Colours very fimilarly difpofed in both 
fexes ; thofe of the female are much duller ; both fexes are 
very fubje£l to alter in the colours of their plumage, frequently 
becoming quite black when kept in confinement, fome nearly 
white have at different times been feen in this country ; we 
have lately feen one (that was fhot a fhort time fmce in the 
new foreft, Hants) perfedlly white ; the part on the head 
that is ufually black, is diftinguifhed by its being of a different 
lhade of whitenefs, the bill is of a light brown, legs and claws 
of the ufual colour. 
This fpecies is very common in every part of this country, 
and is always an unwelcome gueft in gardens or orchards, 
where it commits great injury by feeding on the flower buds 
of moft kinds of fruit-trees, alfo on all forts of ilone fruit ; in 
the 
