PJSSERES. ( 154 ) FRINGILLID^. 



THE GREENFINCH. 



GREEN LINNET, GREEN GROSBEAK, GREEN LINTIE. 



Goccothraustes chloris. 

 %\\e (Bvttn ILintit. 



/ love the broom where the gay Green Lhmet 

 Bigs its wee bower on t/ie broke?!, tree. 



H. ScOTT-RiDDELL, The Bonny Broom. 



Tlie Grene serene sang sueit, quhen the Goldspynk chantit. 



Sir David Lindsay, Co}?iplaynt of Scotland. 



The Greenfinch is a very common bird in the county, and 

 may be seen in numbers wherever there are trees and hedges. 

 It remains with us all the year, but our residents may 

 probably receive additions to their numbers in autumn 

 from migratory flocks from the north.^ 



Towards that season it assembles in flocks with Chaf- 

 finches and other birds, and frequents the stubble fields, 

 where it feeds on seeds of various kinds, as well as on the 

 waste corn. When severe weather occurs, with frost and 

 snow, it is seen in great flocks in stackyards, with House 

 Sparrows, Yellow Buntings, and Chaffinches, feeding round 

 the stacks, about the barn doors, or on grain thrown down 



1 The Greenfinch has been regularly observed on migration at the Isle of May 

 in autumn and spring. Spring 1881.— 4th March, 14th April. Spring 1882.— 

 17th and 18th March. Autumn 1882.— 9th to 23rd Oct. Spring 1883.— 17th Feb. 

 to 5th April. Autumn 1883.— 1st to 3rd Nov. Spring 1884.— 10th Feb. to 25th 

 March. Autumn 1884.— 4th Nov. to 26th Jan. 1885. Spring 18S5.— Feb., 

 March, and April. Autumn 1885.— 5th 'Nov.— Reports on the Migration of 

 Birds, 1879-85. 



