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Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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obtain respecting it, todiffer little in manners from our well-known Bullfinch. The male and female, as will be seen in the Plate, offer a decided difference in their colouring, the malebeing ornamented by a beautiful deep stain of scarlet over the whole of the plumage which is totally wantingin the female as well as in the young of both sexes; it is also probable that the male loses this distinguishingmark in winter and regains it in spring. The male has the head, neck, and top of the back of a lively crimson, fading off below into a beautiful rosecolour ; the small feathers round the base of the beak and nostrils are also of a dull rose ; the wings and tailbrown, the feathers being edged with deep rose colour; beak and tarsi brown. The female has all the upper parts of a brownish grey, with longitudinal dashes of a deeper colour, thethroat and cheeks being blotched with brown ; the under surface white, or nearly so. The Plate represents an adult male and female of the natural size.
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ROSY &10SBEAI, . Erythrospiza rosea. J)rvwn/froms JToutures & aw Sbcxa ly J&U. &mxZA. -Frt,i*Zed> iy CM*Zlm>cu>ulcIf. ROSY GROSBEAK. Erythrospiza rosea.Le Bouvreuil Pallas, We believe we may safely affirm that this beautiful species of Finch is strictly confined to the northernregions of the Old World, and that it is not found, as stated by some authors, on the continent of America.By Wilson it was considered synonymous with the Fringitta purpurea, which although bearing a strong resem-blance in its general contour and colouring, differs both from it and Erythrospiza erythrina, in the form of thebill: the two latter birds have this organ shorter, and more swollen at the sides, approaching in these parti-culars to the typical Pyrrhulce, or Buffinches. Russia and Siberia constitute the true habitat of the present species, though it may occasionally be found inHungary and the more central parts of Europe. It is considered one of the rarest European birds, and isc

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