GREEN GROSBEAK OR GREENFINCH. 271 
Doubleday states, that in the breeding season it 
becomes deep blue. In the female the colours 
are less marked, and blend more into each other, 
while the black markings are less in extent, and 
are scarcely so deep in tint. In a young speci- 
men procured on the Continent, the black on the 
throat is not apparent ; the upper parts are yel- 
lowish brown, darker on the back, and having 
the tips of the feathers with darker undulated 
bars ; under parts yellowish white, on the breast, 
belly, and flanks, spotted with crescent-formed 
marks of pale umber-brown. 
The Green Grosbeak, or Greenfinch, 
Coccothraustes chloris, Fleni Loxia chloris, 
Will. Linn. — Fringilla chloris , Temm. — Cocco- 
thraustes chloris, Flem. Selby, and modern British 
ornithologists. — Chloris fiavigaster, Swain. — 
Greenfinch, Grosbeak of British authors. — Al- 
though Mr Swainson has placed this species as a 
sub-genus of Linaria, connecting that form with 
the Hawfinches, we have, nevertheless, placed it 
following the latter, and have not, for the present 
at least, adopted the sub-genus Chloris. In form 
it approaches most closely to Coccothraustes , and 
in its general habits it has also a very near alli- 
ance ; as an intermediate form it may still connect 
Linaria, without entering it as a sub-genus, some 
of its modifications or sub-genera being still im- 
perfectly known. 
The Greenfinch is very generally distributed 
