The tiijlory ^ANIMALS, jot 
The wings are moderately long $ the principal feathers are black, variegated with 
white : the tail is forked * the female never has the rednefs at the top of the head 5 the 
male always has it in fome degree, but it is more confpicuous in fummer than in 
winter. 
This is frequent with us, and has been defcribed by all the writers on birds* They 
call it Linaria rubra major. 
Fringilla dorfo fufco et albo variegato , peElorefanguimo . 
The Fringilla , with the back brown and white> the breajl 
red. 
This is of the fize of the gold-finch, or fomewhat larger i the head is fmall and 
flatted * the eyes are fmall and hazel * the beak is conic, very fmall, and flharp at the 
oint: the head, neck, and back are variegated with a bright brown and white* the 
read and belly are pale * but in the male, and efpecially in the fummer months, there 
is a rednefs on the top of the head, and all over the bread t the tail is brown, with 
the tips and edges of many of the feathers pale : the long feathers of the wings are 
alfo brown, with the edges pale * and there is a white fpot on the upper part of each 
wing, formed by the covering feathers. 
This is very frequent with us. Gefner and others call it Linaria rubra * Ray and 
Willughby, Linaria rubra minor. 
5Ef)c comnott 
Fringilla capita nigro, maxillis rufis , torque albo. 
Fhe Fringilla , with a black head, brown at the hides 
and with a white ring. 
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fparrom. 
This is a very beautiful and a very Angular bird 5 it is of the fize of the common 
linnet: the head is fmall and deprefled * the beak fhort and black, and the eyes hazel i 
the head is black, only that there is fome reddifh-brown about the angles of the 
mouth; the throat and bread: are alfo black; there is a whitenefs furrounding the 
black of the head, in form of a ring : the outer part of the neck is grey * the back is 
brown, and both are fpotted very freely with black: the long feathers of the wings 
are black, but their exterior edge is of a ferrugineous colour : the tail-feathers are 
alfo moftly black, but fome of them are brown, and others grey at the edges: the 
rump is of a dufky grey, and the belly white. 
It is frequent in watery places, and has a very fweet and Angular note* (Hefner calls 
it Pafler Aquaticus five Schasniclos* Aldrovand, Junco five Pafler arundinaceus * Ray 
and Willughby, and from them feveral others, Pafler torquatus in arundinetis ni- 
dificans. 
Fringilla fufca gula nigra , temporibus ferrugineis. 
The brown Fringilla, with a black throaty and 
brown temples . 
common 
^partem. 
This is larger than the linnet, and the male is an ere<d and handfome bird i the 
head is large * the eyes fmall, and the beak fhort: the general colour on the back is a 
dufky brown, and on the bread: and belly whitifh : the head in the male is grey, or¬ 
namented with a black fpot, and the fides brownifh : the throat is ornamented with a 
large black fpot: the wings are fhort, and their principal feathers brown * the tail is 
fhort and forked. 
This is common in all parts of Europe, and is defcribed by all the writers on birds, 
under the name of Pafler domefticus. 
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