THE RED BULLFINCHES. 
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THE SCARLET BULLFINCH. CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS. 
Loxia erythrina, Pall., N. Comm. Acad. Sci., St. Petersb., xiv., p. 
587, pi. 23, fig. 1. (1770)- . . . a „ x 
Carpodacus erythrinus, Dresser, B. Eur.,iv.,p. 75, pi - 195 O 7 ) > 
B. O. U. List Br. B., p. 55 (1883); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus., xii., p. 391 (1888). . 
Pyrrkula erythrina. Newt. ed. Yarr., 11., p. 189 (1877) ; laun- 
ders, Man., p. 189 (1889) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B., pt. xiv. 
(1890). 
Adult Male. — Dark brown, washed with rosy or pale crimson , 
lower back and rump dull rosy; crown of head dull crimson, 
this colour overspreading the nape and hind-neck; checks 
throat, and breast bright crimson, paler on the latter ; centre 
of breast and abdomen white, slightly washed with crimson , 
bill greyish horn-colour, the ridge more dusky ; feet and toes 
brown ; iris hazel. Total length, 5-5 inches ; oilmen, 0-45 ; 
wing, 3'2 ; tail, 2-25; tarsus, 075. 
Adult romale.— Above olive-brown, with dusky centres to the 
feathers • rump brown like the back, with no crimson ; wmg- 
coverts tipped with yellowish white, forming a double wing-bar; 
SS dull white, streaked with brown ; fore-neck and breast 
ochreous buff, streaked with dusky ; abdomen white. Total 
length, 5 - s inches; wing, 3'o. 
Young Male.— Similar to the female, but not so distinctly 
striped on the throat and breast; wing-bars yellow and very 
distinct. 
Range in Great Britain.— An accidental straggler, having oc- 
curred twice: near Brighton in September and near Ha P 
stead in October. As the species is one 18 
range in Western Europe, these are not likely to have been 
individuals escaped from confinement. 
-n * m British Island*. — Breeds from Eastern Prus- 
si^eastwards^throug^Norihern Russia and Southern Siberia to 
the Pacific as well as from Asia Minor eastwards to Central 
Asia 1 It winters in India and the countries to the south of its 
