PASSERINE. CALAMOPHILUS. 
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and is composed of twigs, moss, and slender roots. The eggs, 
four or five, are nine and a half twelfths long, seven and a 
half twelfths in breadth, bluish-white, spotted and streaked 
with purplish-grey and reddish-brown. 
Coal-hood. Ked-hoop. Tony-hoop. Alp. Pope. Nope. 
Loxia Pyrrhula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 338. — Pyrrhula vulgaris, 
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 338. — Pyrrhula pileata, Common 
Bullfinch, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 40?. 
GENUS LXIX. CALAMOPHILUS. PINNOCK. 
Bill short, rather slender ; upper mandible with the dor- 
sal line considerably convex, the sides also convex, the edges 
thin, toward the end arched, without notch, the tip narrow 
and declinate ; lower mandible with the angle rather nar- 
row, the dorsal line almost straight, the edges inflected, the 
tip narrow. Tongue slender, trigonal, obliquely truncate and 
lacerate ; oesophagus enlarged into a crop ; stomach muscu- 
lar, with dense rugous epithelium ; intestine of moderate 
length ; coeca very small. Nostrils small, round, concealed. 
Eyes of moderate size. Ear roundish, rather large. Head 
ovate, moderate ; neck short ; body rather slender. Feet of 
moderate length ; toes moderate ; claws rather long, arched, 
compressed, acute. Plumage very soft, blended ; wings short, 
rounded ; first quill extremely small ; second a little shorter 
than third and fourth ; tail very long, graduate, of twelve 
weak rounded feathers. 
137. CALAMOPHILUS BIARMICUS. BeARDED PiNNOCK. 
Male with the head light greyish-blue, the general colour 
light red ; the wings variegated with black and white ; mys- 
tachial bands of elongated lanceolate feathers, and lower tail- 
coverts, black. Female lighter, with the head merely tinged 
with grey, no mystachial bands, and the lower tail- coverts 
light red. Young like the female, but with the head and back 
black. 
Male, 7^, 2^, y%, Female, 6|-. 
This beautiful bird, which has by authors usually been re- 
ferred to the genus Par us, but which I think, judging from its 
digestive organs, must belong to the Huskers, is said to be ex- 
tensively dispersed over the Continent, inhabiting the marshy 
borders of rivers and lakes. In England it is found chiefly 
