fitliDS. PASSERES. 83. Fringilla. 553 
inhabits Europe anA Siberia^ 2) Afiaj 6J inches long ; feeds 
on the mafl of beech and other trees ; eggs yellowifh, 
Ipotted. 
Bill yellowiflr tipt with black ; head, neck and back black, (in 
the female brown) the feathers edged with reddifh-brown ; 
^nnip, lower part of the breajl and belly white ; throat and 
Upper part of the breajl reddiflt-tawny, (in the female red- 
dilh-grey) ; leffer wing-coverts reddilh, middle ones teddilh- 
"'hite, greater black tipt with white, thole next the body red- 
dillr at the tip ; quill-Jeathers black, edged with yellowifli 5 
tail a little forked ; kgs grey. 
®rown ; breaft and fhoulders rufous ; wings black with a 
rufous fpot. LuJean t* 
inhabits Stueden ; iize of the gold-finch. 
brown ; htdd and neck above blackifli-afli ; thtout wrnte ; 
hclly and verit whitiih ; zving-coverts with alternate rufous 
3 nci black bands, the laft. white; quill-fedthcTS black; tail 
dark cinereous. 
Olive • head , and neck fcarlet ; wings and tail black 5 
wing-eoverts with 2 white bands. Red-beaded F. 
Inhabits Mauritius Ijland : near 5 inches long. 
Bill black ; legs reddiih-grey ; orbits black. 
G 
reeh ; faee^ chin, rump and wedged tail fcarlet. 
Parrot F, 
Bill black ; quill-feathers on the outer edge green, inner 
brciwn-aih ; 2 middle tail-feathers entirely fcarlet with brown 
Ihafts, the reft fcarlet without, brown within. 
Quill-feathers blact, and (except the outmoft) marked with 
fine yellow in the middle ; 2 outmoft tail-feathers in 
the middle, the reft tipt with white. 
Gold-finclu ThlJile F. 
^^gioii of the bill and eyes fnowy. ^ 
^^ad ftreaked with red or yellow. 
^ead and neck black ; bill fpotted with red at the bafe. 
'^hiiiOi ; front, cheeks and chin red ; wings and tail 
^ hrown-aflt. 
^fiite ; quill-feathers black tipt with white* 
j middle tail-feathers fulphur. . t,, , -n 
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