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pyrrhulin.se. 
and peculiar form in the mandibles of the bill, 
being crossed over each other. They are mostly 
arboreal in their habits, and many of them fre- 
quent extensive and retired woods. The genus 
we have first to notice is, 
Pyrrhula, JBrisson. — Generic characters. — 
Bill short, thick, and swelled, or inflated in 
all its parts, wide at the base, edges of the 
mandible folding over the maxilla, culmen 
rounded ; wings with the third quill longest, 
second and fourth equal, first slightly shorter ; 
tail ample, sometimes lengthened ; feet with 
the tarsus and middle toe nearly equal. 
Type. — 1. P. vulgaris, 2. erythrocephala. 
Form compact, stout. Europe, Asia. 
