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CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS.
Scarlet Bullfinch.
Loxia erythrina, Pall. Nov. Cornm. Petrop.. tom. xiv. p. 587, tab. 23. fig. 1.
cardinalis, Beseke, Vög. Karl., p. 77, no. 166.
—.— rosea, Vieill. Qis. Chant., tab. 66.
eryfhrasa, Endl. u. Scholz, Naturfreund, tom. i. p. 9, tab. 6, m as; et tom. ii. p. 185, Ub. 77, fern.
Pyrrhula erythrina, Pall., Zoog. Rosso-Asiat. tom. ü. p. 8, no. 180.
-----------stimica, Mühle, Orn. Griech.
Linaria erythrina, Bote.
Fringiüa erythrina, Meyer, Vög. Lief. u. Esthl., p. 77 cum tab.
----------- flammen, Retz, e d it Linn. Faun. Suec., p. 247.
Goccothraustes roseo, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’H is t Nat., tom. xiii. p. 559.
■ i ■ — erythrina, Vieill. Ency. M6th. Om., part iiL p. 1003.
Erythrothorax rubifrons, Brehm, Vög. Deutsch]., p. 249.
Erytkrospiza erythrina, Bonap. Geog. .and Comp. List of Birds of Eur. and N. Amer., p. 36.
i ------— rosea, Blyth. Journ. Asiat Soc. Beng., vol. xi. p. 461; vol. xii. p. 177.
Pyrrhulinota roseata, Hodgs. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1846, p. 36.
11 i . - rosacolor vel rosea, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85, mas.
Carpodacus erythrintu, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst, p. 161.
Propasser sordidtu, Hodgs. in Gray’s Zool Misc., pp. 84,86, fern.
ITemnorrhous rosetu, Jerd. Madras Journ. of Lit. & Sei., vol. xi. p. 36.
Fro* tfc* vww (-xteni # r wy over Asia and the continent of Europe enjoyed by this pretty species, it is
soincw-u»; irnriottm . t larger number of examples than the two recorded by Mr. Bond in the ‘ Zoologist’
for > should e been captured or killed in this country. The occurrence of these two, however,
which appear - either female* or young males that had not attained their scarlet livery, is sufficient
to demand for this specie«, like some other Old-World birds,,* place in the ■ Birds of Great Britain.’ The
first of the two examples above referred to was taken alive near Brighton in September 1869, and is now, I
believe in the aviary of T. Monk, Esq., at Moontficld House, Lewes ; the second, a fine young female,
Mr Bond states, was taken near Caen Wood, Hampstead, by a bird-catcher, on the 5th of October 1870,
and is now in that gentleman’s collection.
Much has been written by various authors respecting the Scarlet Bullfinch, the more interesting portions
of which have been culled and given by Dr. Brcc in his valuable work so often mentioned; and as I have
had no opportunities of observing the bird myself, 1 shall here recapitulate hi. aceon.it of the species.
Before, however, proceeding so to do, I may state that the bird probably frequent, the whole of the conntr.es
bordering the arctic circle, from Sweden to China. Mr. Swinhoe procured it at Tientsin; Mr. Jerdon
informs as that it is foond through.-,n the greater part of India; and Adams records its occurrence in
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-T h e Scarlet Bullfinch," says Dr. Brcc, - i s found in Sweden, Finland, Hnssm, and Siberia, more particularly
near the rivers Volga. Samara, Oder, and Selenga. It ocean, solitarily in Conrland and ,n Poland;
and Nnumnnn especially mentions having found U in the summer of 181», on Syl. one o the islands on the
west coast of Jutland. U occurs accidentally ia France, Belgium. Switzerland. Italy, and Central Germany,
and has been captured at Hesse, on the Rhine. Degland mentions that individuals have been shot at Abbeville,
Tonrnni, in the neighbourhood of Milan, and on the Swiss Alps; and Nordmann tells us in. the Faune
Politique,’ that it come, regularly in spring Into the Botanic Gardens at Odessa, either singly or in pairs
and that it is common in the provinces situated to the east of the Black Sea. It is mentioned b , Count
Muhle as occurring in Greece. . . Tf •.
“ Daring the summer it is essentially a northern bird, bat in the autumn it migrates southward If ,
stays the winter, it is found more «specially in the neighbourhood of dwellings, where it can be sheltered
among the shrubs. It is very fond of moist nations, and is frequently found among the bushes oo the
hanks of rivers, lakes, and ponds, where it may he seen on the willows or reeds. .
- Naumaim has given a very complete account of the bird, from which I have gathered the follow,,,g
• For several years in the early spring a pair of these birds were seen near Breslao, among the willow, an
reeds of n swampy district. The male and female were always near together, and the former sung gmly.