. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . et Faune Franc,pi. 38, fig. 1; Naumann, Vogel Deutsch., vol. v, 10(3 GRANIVOKjE. Family FRINGILLID2E. (Bonaparte.) Genus Fringilla. ( C1TKIL FINCH. Fringilla citrineUa. Fringilla citrineUa, Linnjeus. Temminck. alpina, Scopoli. brumalis, Bechstein. Serinus citrineUa, Boie. Chlorospiza citrineUa, Kaup. Cannabina citrineUa, Degland. CitrineUa serinus sive alpina, ordinaire, Le Venturon de Provence, or Gros bee Venturon, Or the French. Gemeiner Citronenfink, Of the Germans. Venturone, Savi.
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . et Faune Franc,pi. 38, fig. 1; Naumann, Vogel Deutsch., vol. v, 10(3 GRANIVOKjE. Family FRINGILLID2E. (Bonaparte.) Genus Fringilla. ( C1TKIL FINCH. Fringilla citrineUa. Fringilla citrineUa, Linnjeus. Temminck. alpina, Scopoli. brumalis, Bechstein. Serinus citrineUa, Boie. Chlorospiza citrineUa, Kaup. Cannabina citrineUa, Degland. CitrineUa serinus sive alpina, ordinaire, Le Venturon de Provence, or Gros bee Venturon, Or the French. Gemeiner Citronenfink, Of the Germans. Venturone, Savi. Specific Characters.—Vertex and back green; nape grey. Pri-maries all tipped with ash; first and third primaries of equallength, and the longest in the wing; tail much forked. Lengthfour inches and four fifths; carpus to tip of wing three inches;tarsus seven lines; beak four lines; tail two inches and threetenths. The Citril Finch is very common in the south ofEurope—in Greece, Turkey, Italy, the shores of theMediterranean, and in Provence. It is found acciden-. CITRIL FINCH. 107 tally only in Germany and the north of France, and,according to Temminck, never in Holland. It is byno means a rare bird in Spain, nor in leaves Germany and Switzerland in October inflocks, and returns in March or April. It is alsofound in those parts of Asia and Africa which abuton the European border. Captain Loche says it occursonly accidentally in Algeria. Thus limited to the southern parts of Europe, theCitril Finch is nevertheless a true Alpine bird, livingnot only among the smaller hills, but frequenting thehighest Alpine mountains as far as the arboreal regionextends. It is found, says Naumann, in the upperdark forests which are broken here and there byopen plains overgrown with grass, and rocky Miihle says it is rare in Greece everywhereexcept in the mountains. The following account of its habits is from Naumann:—It is a cheerful restless little bird, ver
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