. A history of British birds . f the body tothe flanks. The young (and examples occurring in Britain may beexpected not to have assumed mature plumage) resemble theadult female, but the olive-coloured edges of the feathers areyellower and broader. In this state the birds bear a very greatlikeness to the not uncommon hybrids between the Green-finch and the Linnet, and at present it seems impossible todecide whether the bird described by Risso as FringiUaincerta was one of these crosses, an abnormal example ofPyrrhula crythrina, or a variety of the Greenfinch in which,from some unluiown cause, a
. A history of British birds . f the body tothe flanks. The young (and examples occurring in Britain may beexpected not to have assumed mature plumage) resemble theadult female, but the olive-coloured edges of the feathers areyellower and broader. In this state the birds bear a very greatlikeness to the not uncommon hybrids between the Green-finch and the Linnet, and at present it seems impossible todecide whether the bird described by Risso as FringiUaincerta was one of these crosses, an abnormal example ofPyrrhula crythrina, or a variety of the Greenfinch in which,from some unluiown cause, all the yellow or green tints werewanting. Several specimens, agreeing more or less closelywith the description of this supposed species, have beenobtained in England, and the majority of them have beenreferred by Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser to the hybrid justmentioned ; but, whether that determination be correct or not,there can be little doubt that the F. incerta is an imaginaryspecies. PINE-GROSBEAK. PASSERES. 177FRINGJLLID/F. Pyrehula. enucleator (Linnreus*).THE PINE-GEOSBEAK. Pyrrhula enucleator. The Pine-Grosbeak is a very rare bird in this country,though manj^ instances of its having been observed here areon record. Scarcely any of them, however, withstand acritical examination, and out of some two dozen, but four orfive at most seem to deserve serious attention. The earliestof these is possibly that of a female, shot at Harrow-on-the-Hill, and mentioned in former editions of this work as beingin the Authors collection, whence it has passed to that ofMr. Bond. Next there comes another hen-bird noticed in * Loxia enucleator, Lr]?euf^, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. ji. 299 (1766). 178 FRTNGILLID/E. 1831 by Selby (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Newcastle, i. p. 265)as having been shot at Bill Quay near Newcastle-on-Tyne,and at that time in the possession of Mr. Anthony Clapham,but now the property of Mr. Backhouse. Thirdly is a maleexample which the Editor is informed by Mr. Byne is in hisco
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