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a sort of lead-grey, edged with green, and the exte- 
rior feather on each side, which is white, with a 
narrow streak of dusky at the base, and the tip of the 
next feather, which has a patch of white on the inner 
web; wu streak over the eye, cheeks, ear-coverts, 
throat, breast, belly and flanks palish brick-dust-red, 
palest on the belly; under tail-coverts nearly white ; 
legs, toes and claws brown. The female is much 
less varied in colour: the top of the head, nape, 
back and scapulars are darkish olive-brown; there 
is a streak at the back of the eye and side of the 
neck round the ear-coverts much lighter; cheeks, 
ear-coverts, throat, breast, belly and flanks dull hair- 
brown; the rest of the colouring is much the same 
as the male, but not so bright. The young birds in 
their first autumn resemble the female. 
The eggs are well-known, and hardly require de- 
scription, except that they vary in colour, the most 
usual being a sort of greenish grey ground, clouded 
with rusty brown and spotted with dark reddish 
brown; others have a pale drab ground and are 
spotted with the same dark reddish brown; and 
others again have the ground colour quite plain, 
without any clouding or spots. 
Bramsuine, Fringilla montifringilla. The Bram- 
bling, ‘‘ Bramble Finch” or “ Mountain Finch,” as 
it is sometimes called, is a very much less common 
bird than the Chaffinch, and in these parts is cer- 
tainly only a winter visitor. It is not generally 
