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wings are four and a half inches long, reaching bey®^. 
the middle of the tail; the smaller coverts are si® 1 ', 
to the back, cinereous slightly tinged with ora®Suj 
middle and larger, blackish, margined with wb> tlS ( 
exteriorly and widely at tip ; the lower coverts ^ 
whitish gray ; quills, blackish, primaries margined ' v ! | 
pale greenish orange, secondaries and tertials j 
broad white exterior margins ; the tail is three * , 
three quarter inches long, blackish ; the feathers tf 1 
narrow pale edges ; feet, dusky ; nails, blackish. _ j 
In the young female, the head and rump are tin?. - 
with reddish. The male most accurately described 
Wilson, is not adult, but full one year old ; at "h'J . 
period, contrary to the general law of nature, it is j 1 
brightest, as was first stated by Linne, though ** 
observation has since heeu overlooked, or unju* j 
contradicted. In the adult male, the parts that 
crimson in the immature bird, exhibit a fine redd ,s 
orange, the breast and belly being also of that col®!^ 
but paler ; the bars of the wings, tinged with ros® 
the young, become pure white. .a 
We have nothing to add to Wilson’s history of ® j 
bird. Although, after the example of Temminck ‘V 
others, we place this species at the head of the b® | 
finches, we cannot avoid remarking, that its nat<f? 
affinities connect it most intimately with the cross®’.. 
being allied to them closely in its habits, and in 
form, plumage, and general garb, even in its an® , y 
lous change of colours. The bill, however, prerif'i 
that of a bullfinch, induces us to leave it. in ® 
genus, between which and the crossbills it for®?, 
beautiful link ; the obtuse point of the lower mand® 
hut especially the small, porrect, setaceous featb , . (f 
covering the nostrils, as in these latter, emii”' 11 J. 
distinguish it, from all others of its own genus. T® 
characters induced Cuvier to propose it as a subg^w 
under the name of Corythus ; and Vieillot as an enWH 
distinct genus, which he first named Pinicola, but b 
since changed it to Strobilophaga. These authors 1® j, 
of course been followed by the German and Eng® 
