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GREENFINCH. Coccothraustes chloris (Linneus). 
Resident and generally distributed, even to the Outer 
Hebrides, where it is found in North Uist and Harris. 
It is a winter visitant to the Orkneys. 
HAWFINCH. Coccothraustes vulgaris, Stephens. 
Resident in the midland and eastern counties of 
England, migrating in spring and autumn. Found in 
the south and east of Scotland, but not in the west. 
In Ireland it is an occasional winter visitant. Of late 
years this species has become much commoner in 
England, nesting now in many counties where formerly 
it was chiefly observed as a winter visitant. 
BULLFINCH. Pyrrhula vulgaris, Temminck. 
Resident and generally distributed. Has been met 
with once in Shetland and once in Orkney. 
Fam. LOX IID /&. 
CROSSBILL. Lovia curvirostra, Linneus. 
Generally, but erroneously, regarded as a winter 
visitant, being in fact a spring and autumn migrant. 
Many instances are on record of its nesting in England, 
as, for example, in Northumberland and Durham 
(Hancock), Cumberland (Hope), York (Hewitson), 
Leicester (Harley), Suffolk (Sheppard and Whitear), 
Bedford (Shelton), Herts (Bond), Middlesex (Hart- 
ing), Essex (Doubleday), Kent (Jell), Surrey (Hewit- 
