BRAMBLING. 



PASSERBS. 



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FRTNGILLJDM. 



Fringilla montifringilla, Linnaeus*. 



THE BRAMBLING. 



Fringilla montifringilla. 



The Brambltng or Mountain-Finch, as some British 

 authors have chosen to call it, is an autumnal visitor to 

 these islands, coming from the north and passing the winter 

 with us ; but in many places throughout the country it 

 appears very irregularly, both as regards numbers and time of 

 arrival. It is said to have been seen on the Cumberland 

 hills as early as the middle of August, but this statement, 

 made in Bewick's work, if it did not arise in error, ca?i 

 hardly be matched elsewhere. Even on the north-east coast 

 of Great Britain it does not usually appear until about the 



* Syst. Nat. EJ. 12, i. p. 318 (176(3). 



