OM MOPS Sey oes

is white with a faint greyish sea-green tinge, very minutely (almost imperceptibly) dotted with grey, chiefly
at the larger end, and measures 25 by 40 inch.”

‘¢Cabanis,” says Dr. Bree, “ placed this bird in a new genus, that of Rhodopechys, in which he was also
followed by the versatile Prince of Canino. It differs, however, from the Bullfinches in the size and form
of the beak, and belongs, I think, more strictly to the genus Coccothraustes, although here, again, the form
of the wing is different.”

28 :—* This elegant “rythrospiza pheni-

of it in his ‘ Conspectus Avium Europearum,’ p:
Fringilla sanguinea ot Gould, from the confines of Persia and Cir-

y of Europe, which it can always ensure by a few movements

Bonaparte says
coptera, which does not differ from the
cassia, claims its place in the ornitholog
of its wings. It is essentially sedentary, only changing from plains to mountains.”

As specimens differ in their colouring, I must ask my readers to consult the accompanying drawing,

made from Persian examples, and representing the species of the size of life.