. Birds of Asia / by John Gould. Birds; Birds. ERYTHROSPIZA GITHAGINEA. Trumpeter Bullfinch. Fringilla githaginea, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24 (1823). Pyrrhula payraudm, Audouin, Expl. Egypte, Explic. Planches, p. 286, pi. 5. fig. 8 (1825). Pyrrhula githaginea, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 249.—Id. PI. Col. iii. pi. 400.—Werner, Atlas, Granivores, Suppl. pis. 7, 8.—Bolle, Naumannia, 1858, p. 369. Erythrospiza githaginea, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Amer. p. 34 (1838).—Gould, B. Eur. iii.—Bp. Faun. Ital. Ucc. pi. 35. fig. .3.—Id. & Sch. Monogr. Loxiens, pi. 33—Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 155.—D
. Birds of Asia / by John Gould. Birds; Birds. ERYTHROSPIZA GITHAGINEA. Trumpeter Bullfinch. Fringilla githaginea, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24 (1823). Pyrrhula payraudm, Audouin, Expl. Egypte, Explic. Planches, p. 286, pi. 5. fig. 8 (1825). Pyrrhula githaginea, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 249.—Id. PI. Col. iii. pi. 400.—Werner, Atlas, Granivores, Suppl. pis. 7, 8.—Bolle, Naumannia, 1858, p. 369. Erythrospiza githaginea, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Amer. p. 34 (1838).—Gould, B. Eur. iii.—Bp. Faun. Ital. Ucc. pi. 35. fig. .3.—Id. & Sch. Monogr. Loxiens, pi. 33—Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 155.—Dresser, B. Eur. pt. 35. Carpodacus crassirostris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 476 (1847). Carpodacus payraudm, Gray, Gen. B. ii. Bucanetes githagineus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 104 (1850).—Heuglin, Orn. i. p. 656. Carpodacus githagineus, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 91 (1855).. Though this bird is as often called the Trumpeter Bullfinch, it is also known by the name of the Desert- Bullfinch, an appellation which conveys at once an intimation of the habitat affected by the bird. To call it a Bullfinch appears to me somewhat of a misnomer when one recalls the gay plumage which is generally characteristic of the latter group of birds; and it has been rightly separated under the heading of a distinct genus, Erythrospiza. It is essentially a bird of the Desert region, or of what is usually known to naturalists of the present day as the Mediterraneo-Persic Subregion; and it ranges from the Canary Islands, throughout the whole of North-western Africa, Egypt, Nubia, and Arabia, extending to Palestine and eastwards as far as Scinde. Captain Shelley, in his ' Birds of Egypt,' observes :—" This pretty little bird, rendered so conspicuous by its bright red bill, is very plentiful in Upper Egypt and Nubia, where it may be met with in pairs and flocks along the confines of the desert. It invades the cultivated land for its food, which consists entirely of small seeds, and
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