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FRINGILLA TRISTIS. 
fraarments of shrimps, minute shell fish, and hrokeo 
limbs of small sea crabs. Its flesh, also, as was to be 
expected, tasted of fish, or was what is usually termed 
sedgy. Amidst the recesses of these wet sea marshes, 
it seeks the rankest growth of grass and sea weed, a”!* 
climbs along the stalks of the rushes with as mufh 
dexterity as it runs along the ground, which is rathef 
a singular circumstance, most of our climbers bein? 
rather awkward at running. 
The sea-side finch is six inches and a quarter lop?’ 
and eight and a rjuarter iu extent ; chin, pure whit^’ 
bordered on each side by a stripe of dark ash, proccedii^ 
from each base of the lower mandible ; above that 
another slight streak of white ; from the nostril ovft 
the eye extends another streak, which immediately ov^*^ 
the lores is rich yellow, bordered above with wh't^’ 
and ending in yellow olive ; crown, brownish 
divided laterally by a strijie of slate blue, or fine liif*\ 
ash ; breast, ash, streaked with buff’ ; belly, whit^ ’ 
vent, buff coloured, and streaked with black ; upp*’*^ 
parts of the back, wings, and tail, a yellowish broi*'^ 
olive, intermixed with very pale blue ; greater aO 
lesser coverts, tint with dull white ; edge of the be'' 
of the wing, rich yellow; primaries edged with th® 
same immediately below their coverts ; tail, cuneifor'*’’ 
olive brown, centred with black; bill, dusky aboV®; 
pale blue below, longer than is usual with finch'’'' | 
legs and feet, a pale bluish white ; irides, hazeL 
and female nearly alike in colour. 
SUBGENUS n. CARDUELIS, BEISSON. 
175 . FllJNOILZA TJtlSTIS, LINNyEUS AND WILSON. 
TELLOW BIKD, OB GOLDFINCH. 
WILSON, PLATE I. FIG. II ADULT MALE, IN SPRING DRESS. 
EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This bird is four inches and a half in length, 
eight inches in extent, of a rich lemon yellow, Ihd''^ 
into white towards the rump and vent. The 
