GREEN GROSBEAK OR GREENFINCH. 273 
has been added to its geographical range ; but 
from the notes of Temminck, and the account 
which Kitlitz gives of its habits, we suspect that 
the species, as well as several others, when more 
closely examined, will be found to be distinct in 
the different countries. 
In the female the upper parts are more tinted with 
brown, and the yellow of the rump and breast, is 
not so vivid. In the young the feathers are 
streaked along the centre with a darker shade of 
oil green, and there is little yellow on any part of 
the plumage. 
From these birds of powerful structure, both 
as regards their body and the bill, with its accom- 
panying bones and muscles, we pass through 
many foreign genera having no British represen- 
tative, and arrive at those of more slender form. 
The first to be noticed is the Goldfinches or 
Siskins, Cardtielis, Briss. which, although hitherto 
kept in one genus under the above scientific title 
of Brisson, have each a family dress as it were, 
which, in popular language, at once suffices to 
distinguish them. We possess one example of 
each, and the characters may be given as fol- 
lows: 
Carduei.is, Briss. — Generic characters . — Bill 
rather lengthened, compressed, attenuated, 
and sharp at the point ; the edges of the 
mandible very slightly sinuated, and bending 
towards the tip ; wings lengthened, pointed, 
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