. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . brown, the most externalquill nearly all white, the second having a wedge-shaped band of that colour on the base of the broadinner web, the base of the wedge being at the distalend of the feather. Crop and flanks cream-colour,thickly covered with longitudinal marks of blackbrown; abdomen grey white; under tail coverts cream-colour. Schlegel describes the beak of a blackish horn-colour, 68 LITTLE BUNTING. shading off into yellowish upon the edges of the man-dibles, and the base of the lower; feet and chnvsslender, and of a
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . brown, the most externalquill nearly all white, the second having a wedge-shaped band of that colour on the base of the broadinner web, the base of the wedge being at the distalend of the feather. Crop and flanks cream-colour,thickly covered with longitudinal marks of blackbrown; abdomen grey white; under tail coverts cream-colour. Schlegel describes the beak of a blackish horn-colour, 68 LITTLE BUNTING. shading off into yellowish upon the edges of the man-dibles, and the base of the lower; feet and chnvsslender, and of a pale yellowish horn-colour; clawspointed, rather bent in, and of a pale blackish horn-colour. The bird marked by M. Verreaux ? , ? No. 23653,is smaller than the male, but does not differ from itin plumage essentially, except in the absence of russeton the throat, the more uniform greyish white, andthe fewer spots of the inferior parts. The colours arealtogether less clear. My figure of the egg is taken from Middendorff. The bird has been figured in Naumanns 69 GRANIVORjE. Family FRINGILLIDjE. (Bonaparte.) Genus Pyrrhula. ( Generic Characters.—Beak short, conico-convex, and tliickat the hase, the sides inflated and bulging; upper mandibleconvex, deflected at the tip, and overhanging the lower onemore or less. Nostrils basal, lateral, round, and for the mostpart concealed by bristly feathers at the base of the shorter than the middle toe; toes entirely short; the first three primaries tapering, the fourththe longest in the wing. Tail of moderate length, slightlyrounded, or square. SCARLET BULLFINCH. Pyrrhula erythrina. Pyrrhula erythrina, Loxia erythrina, Erythrospiza erythrina, Carpodacus erythrinus,« (< Pyrrhulinota roscecolor, rosea et erythrina,JSrythrothorax rubifrons,Loxia cardinalis, obscura,Frinyilla jiammea,Pyrrhula Sinaica,Souvreuil Cramcisi,Brand Posengimpel, Temminck. Pallas. Gmelin. Bonaparte. Gray. Kemp. Bonaparte.
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