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128. CoCCOTHRAUSTES ATROGULARIS. BlACK-THROATED 
Grosbeak. 
Male with the head yellowish-brown, the throat and space 
before the eyes black, the fore part of the back dark chestnut ; 
four of the primary quills emarginate and curved outwards at 
the extremity. Female with the colours similar, but paler. 
The bill is pale flesh-coloured in winter, but in spring becomes 
deep blue, as in the Chaffinch. Young with the throat bright 
yellow ; the head, neck, and upper parts, olive-brown ; lower 
parts paler, each feather tipped with brown. 
Male, H ’27 j§p ^' 2 p iV* Female, 7. 
Flocks of this species usually visit England, and less fre- 
quently Scotland, in the beginning of winter, remaining until 
the end of spring, and feeding on seeds and kernels. Indivi- 
duals, however, are permanently resident, the eggs and young 
having repeatedly been found, especially in the vicinity of 
Epping Forest. The nest is composed of decayed leaves and 
lichens, with a lining of fibrous roots and hair. The eggs, 
from four to six, are pale olive, spotted with black, and streak- 
ed with dusky. 
Flawfinch. 
Loxia Coccothraustes, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 299. — Fringilla 
Coccothraustes, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 344. — Cocco- 
thraustes atrogularis, Black-throated Grosbeak, or Hawfinch, 
MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 356. 
GENUS LXIY. CHLOBOSPIZA. GREENFINCH. 
Our Greenfinch is so nearly allied to the Grosbeaks on 
the one hand, and to the Linnets and Sparrows on the other, 
that one might expect little censure, either for uniting it 
with any one of these genera, or for according it generic dis- 
tinction. Prince Charles L. Bonaparte having preferred the 
latter method, I see no very urgent reason for not adopting 
his views. 
Bill shortish, straight, conical, subpentagonal at the base, 
nearly as broad as high, compressed toward the end, acute ; 
upper mandible with the dorsal line slightly curved, the ridge 
broad and convex, the sides convex, the edges inflected, with 
scarcely perceptible indications of a notch, close to the acute 
tip ; lower mandible with the angle semicircular, the dorsal 
