FEMALE PINE BULLFINCH. 
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5. Id. Supp. p. 148. Mont. Orn. Did. I. Waeck. Syn. PI. 207. Donov. Brit. 
Birds, I, PI. 17. Bewick, Brit. Birds, I, p. 135. Shaw’s Zool. IX, p. 238, PI. 43. 
Ubers. II, p. 106, Sp. 5. 
Flamingo Grosbeak, Lath. Syn. Suppl. p. 155, accid. var. 
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The female Pine Bullfinch is eight and a half inches long, and 
thirteen and a half in extent. The bill measures more than half 
an inch, is blackish with the lower mandible paler at base, the 
feathers of the whole head, neck, breast, and rump, orange, 
tipped with brownish, the orange richer on the crown, where are 
a few blackish dots, the plumage at base plumbeous: the back is 
cinereous, somewhat mixed with orange, the shafts darker: belly 
and femorals pure cinereous: lower tail-coverts whitish, shafted 
with dusky: the wings are four and a half inches long, reaching 
beyond the middle of the tail: the smaller coverts are similar to 
the back, cinereous slightly tinged with orange: middle and larger 
blackish, margined with whitish exteriorly and widely at tip; 
the lower coverts are whitish gray; quills blackish, primaries 
margined with pale greenish orange, secondaries and tertials with 
broad white exterior margins: the tail is three and three quarter 
inches long, blackish, the feathers with narrow pale edges; feet 
dusky, nails blackish. 
In the young female the head and rump are tinged with reddish. 
The male represented and most accurately described by Wilson, 
is not adult, but full one year old; at which period, contrary to 
the general law of nature, it is the brightest, as was first stated 
by Linne, though his observation has since been overlooked or 
unjustly contradicted. In the adult male, the parts that were 
crimson in the immature bird, exhibit a fine reddish orange, the 
breast and belly being also of that colour, but paler; the bars of 
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the wings, tinged with rose in the young, become pure white. 
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