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FRINGILLINiE. CORYTHUS. 
tinged with crimson ; feathers of wings and tail dusky^ edged with 
brownish-grey ; hind part of breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts 
yellowish-white, streaked with dusky. Female with the feathers of 
the upper parts brown, edged with brownish- white ; the lower parts 
brownish-white, streaked with brown. 
Male, 6|, wing, 34. 
Bases of Rocky Mountains. Rare. Migratory, 
Fringilla frontalis, Say, Long’s Exped. v. ii. p. 40. 
Crimson-necked Bullfinch, Pyrrhula frontalis, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. i. pi. I. 
Crimson-fronted Bullfinch, Pyrrhula frontalis, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 534. 
Crimsoh-neek^d Finch, Fringilla frontalis, Aun. Orn, Biog. v. v. p. 230. 
h'-' 
198. 3. Erythrospiza tephrocotis, Swains. Grey-crowned 
Purple-Finch. 
Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 3. Male. 
Male dark umber-brown ; upper part of head ash-grey, anteriorly 
spotted with black • first row of small wing-coverts, rump, and upper 
tail-coverts broadly edged and tipped with rose-red, as are the feathers 
of the sides, and the lower tail-coverts, feathers of wings and tail 
dusky brown, margined with brownish-white, the secondary coverts 
with dull red. 
Male, 6 ; wing, 4. 
Saskatchewan River. V ery rare. Migratory, 
Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis, Swainson’s Grey-crowned Linnet, Swains. & 
Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 265. 
Grey-crowned Linnet, Fringilla tephrocotis, Aud. Om. Biog. v. v. p. 232. 
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GENUS XII. CORYTHUS, Cuv. PINE-FINCH. 
Bill short, robust, bulging at the base, conical, acute ; 
upper mandible of the same breadth as the lower, with its 
dorsal line very convex, the nasal sinus semicircular, the 
sides convex, the edges sharp, overlapping, gently ascend- 
ing at the base, then arched, with a slight festoon, the 
notches obsolete, the tip declinate, acute ; lower mandible 
with the angle semicircular, the dorsal line slightly convex, 
the hack rounded at the base, the sides convex, the edges 
somewhat inflected, the tip obtuse. Nostrils basal, round, 
concealed by bristly feathers. Head large, roundish-ovate ; 
neck short ; body moderately stout ; feet short ; tarsus short, 
compressed, with seven scutella ; toes stout, the first pro- 
portionally large, the lateral nearly equal, the outer adhe- 
