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SUBFAMILY LOXIIN.E.— GENUS PYRRHULA. 



BULLFINCH. 



Pyrrhula EUROPiEA, Vieillot. 



Local Names — Thick-hill, N<)2)e. 



Eesident, and very evenly distributed ; nowhere com- 

 mon as a breeding species, there being seldom above 

 two or three pairs in any one district. It is a bird of 

 shy and retiring habits, nesting usually in thick bushes, 

 though ]\Ir. T. Altham has found a nest on a spruce- 

 branch, and Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson has seen one near 

 the Winster on yews. On the Cumberland border Dr. 

 Parker says the Bullfinch is mostly seen in winter, and 

 it is perhaps most commonly observed at this season in 

 other localities, being often disturbed by parties of cover- 

 shooters. It lays five or six eggs about the end of May. 



GENUS PINICOLA. 



PINE-GKOSBEAK. 



PiNicoLA ENUCLEATOR (Linnseus). 



The Eev. H. Clark states {ZooL, 1845, p. 1025) that 

 he had a Pine-Grosbeak which was killed in February, 

 1845, in a fir-plantation near Eochdale, and Mr. Peter 

 Eylands in his " Catalogue of Birds found in Lanca- 

 shire " (Neville Wood's Xaturalist, 1837) gives " Hulston 

 jBr-trees, T. K. G." (Glazebrook, F.L.S.) as another 



