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the couuty, especially in the southern part. I have known 

 seven nests with eggs in a tall hawthorn hedge within a length 

 of two hundred yards. Over thirty Hawfinches were lately shot 

 in one garden (where they came after the green peas), without 

 making any perceptible difference in the numbers locally " 

 (H. E. Foi'rest hi Utt.). In Cheshire, where it was first recorded 

 in 1860, it is now plentiful in some districts where a few years 

 ago it was unknown (Coward and Oldham, Birds of Cheshire, p. 

 75). A marked increase is recorded in north-west Lindsey, 

 Lincolnshire (M. Peacock, JVcr/., 1906, p. 44). In Yorkshire it 

 " has vastly increased of late years and extended its range 



northward now resident in many places where it used 



to be merely a winter visitant." " Since 1897 there has been a 

 large colony in Cleveland, where some twenty or thirty pairs 

 breed" {Birds of Yorhshire," pp. 165 and 168). In vai'ious 

 parts of Durham, where it used to be only a rare visitor, it is 

 now resident and breeding (J. W. Fawcett, Nat., 1900, p. 113). 

 In CwmfterZawcZ, where it has nested once or twice before, it was 

 recorded as nesting this year at Netherby (T. Harrison, Field, 

 13, VII., 1907). In Northumberland, where it is extremely rare 

 and had not previously been recorded as breeding, a pair was 

 found nesting near Chipchase. first in 1901, and again in 1902, 

 5 and 6 (A. Chapman, Bird-Life of the Borders, p. 144). 



Wales. — In Breconshire where it was first discovered nesting 

 in 1890, it has bred again and appears to be increasing and 

 extending westward (E. A. Swainson, Zool., 1902, p. 465, and 

 E. Cambridge Phillips, Field, 7, ix., 1907). In north-west 

 Wales it is " slowly spreading westward but is as yet rare in 

 Merioneth; unknown on the west coast, in Anglesey or 

 Carnarvon, except near Llandudno" (H. E. Forrest, Zool., 1903, 

 p. 178). Mr. Forrest writes to us, under date September 16tli, 

 1907 : — " In North Wales the Hawfinch appears to have been 

 unknown until comparatively recent years, for none of the older 

 writers mention it as occurring there. At the present time it is 

 common in 3Iontgoiueryshire and parts of Flint and Denbiffh- 

 shire, and is gradually increasing and extending its range 

 westwards, though it has not yet reached the west coast. Full 

 details will be found in my forthcoming ' Fauna of North Wales.' " 

 Scotland. — Although a young bird was caught near 

 Edinburgh in 1894 (cf W. E. Clarke, A7in. Scot. Nat. Hist., 

 1894, p. 195), the breeding of the Hawfinch in Scotland had 

 not been proved until in 1903 a nest near Newport, in the east 

 of Fifeshire, was reported by Mr. W. Berry (t.c, 1904, p. 11). 

 Although no more nests have been found in Scotland, the 

 following occurrences of the bird have been noted: — 1903, 

 April 6th .<S ad., Kinnelhead, Dumfriesshire (t.c, 1903, p. 184) ; 

 1904, February, 9 ad., East Lothian, April 28th, one taken at 



