HAWFINCH. 487 



having, with the assistance of a small telescope, counted 

 eighteen at one time on his lawn. The bird figured many 

 years ago by Edwards in his Gleanings of Natural History, 

 was killed at Goodwood in Sussex. They have been known 

 to breed near Windsor, and young birds were obtained when 

 paying their daily visits to some young peas in a garden, 

 which from concurring testimony appear to be much sought 

 after by these birds as food in summer. They have been 

 noticed about Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, and repeated- 

 ly seen by Gilbert White at Selborne in Hampshire. It 

 has been obtained occasionally in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, 

 and in the eastern as well as western part of Cornwall. Ac- 

 cording to Pennant, Montagu, and Mr. Eyton, it occurs in 

 winter in Gloucestershire and Shropshire ; it has been met 

 with at Ormskirk in Lancashire, and one was seen frequently 

 in the spring of 1838 about the gardens and pleasure grounds 

 at Woodside, four miles south of Carlisle, Mr. Thompson 

 sends me Avord that the Hawfinch has in a very few instances 

 been obtained in different parts of Ireland. 



Eastward and northward from London this bird is most 

 plentiful in the vicinity of Epping Forest, and is found as 

 far towards the east coast as JNIanningtree. It occurs in 

 Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and occasionally about 

 York ; but is not included by Mr. Selby in his Catalogue of 

 the Birds of Durham and Northumberland. Sir William 

 Jardine sends me word that it has been once or twice killed 

 in Dumfriesshire, but it is not common in Scotland. 



The Hawfinch is included by Muller among his birds of 

 Denmark, and by Professor Nilsson in those of Sweden and 

 of Scandinavia generally, but it is considered rare ; it occurs 

 sparingly in Russia ; but from thence southward on the Eu- 

 ropean continent, it is much more plentiful, in Germany, 

 France, Spain, and Italy. M. Temminck includes the Haw- 

 finch in his Catalogue of the Birds of Japan. 



