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COCCOTHRAUSTES VULGARIS, Pallas. 

 HAWFINCH. 



§ 2350. Three.— HQdiX Eton, not later than 1844. 



These were bought at " the wall " at Eton of a boy, who did not 

 know what they were. Mr. C. Coleridge pointed them out to me as 

 the eggs of the Grosbeak, and I have since been able to confirm this 

 opinion. He has been informed by Windsor park-keepers that the 

 bird breeds there every year. 



§ 2351. i^/y^.— Einchley, Middlesex, 1857. From Mr. Salvin. 



Taken by a man who is employed by Mr. Salvin. The bird is in 

 all the oak-woods about Finchlev. 



[^ 2352. One. — Epping, Essex. From Mr. Henry Doubleday, 

 through Mr. R. Reynolds, before 1848. 



To Mr. Doubleday is due the discovery that the Hawfincli is indigenous to 

 England, it having been before considered but a stray winter- visitant. He had 

 for some years suspected that it bred in Epping Forest, and in the summer of 

 1832 found there several of its nests, as first announced by Mr. Hewitson, who 

 figured two of its eggs from that locality (British Oology, pi. xliii. No. x., 

 published 1 Dec. 1832) ; but the fact seems to have been unknown to Mr. Selby, 

 though he in 1833 stated (British Ornithology, i. ed. 1, p. 324, note) that he 

 understood the species had been found breeding in Windsor Forest. This was 

 most likely true, but nothing is said of it by Mr. Jesse, who was so well 

 acquainted with that neighbourhood. He, however (Gleanings, iii. p. 154), 

 knew of a nest at Roehampton in 1835. Some years later, in 1837, Mr. Double- 

 day published an excellent account of the bird's breeding-habits (Mag. Zoology 

 and Botany, i. pp. 448-450), and it was soon after found to inhabit many parta 

 of the country, and in some places to be numerous.] 



[§ 2353. 77^re^.— Epping, 1851. From Mr. F. Bond.] 



[^ 2354. Three.— C^QX\ W'ood, Middlesex, 15 May, 1856. 

 From Mr. Salvin.] 



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