THE BIRDS OF CUMBERLAND. 43 



months in the Midlands or on the south coast. 

 The movement is not, however, correlated with 

 temperature, but with the supply of food. 



Genus C O C C O TH R AU S T E S. 



C. Vulgaris. Hawfinch. 



The Hawfinch is a very scarce winter visitant, 

 occurring in small droves and also singly. It is 

 possible that it has nested in Cumberland, for a 

 Hawfinch was observed in summer at Woodside, 

 many 3^ears since. A single bird was observed near 

 Carlisle in the spring of 1884, and in August, 1882, 

 a young bird was shot out of a party of five in the 

 garden of Bridekirk Vicarage {Rev. A. Sutton in lit.) 

 Mr. E. Sutton was attracted to these Hawfinches 

 by the shrill notes of the young birds, with which 

 he was previously acquainted, and writes that the 

 bird which fell to his gun was certainly a young 

 one, though he sees no grounds for concluding that 

 it had been bred in that immediate locality. 



In 1880, a female Hawfinch, together with a 

 nest and clutch of three eggs, was obtained at 

 Coniston, which is only five miles south of the 

 Cumberland border. (B. of Lancashire, p. 60.) 



Genus PASSER. 



P. Domesticus. Sparrow. 



The Sparrow is an only too numerous resident, 

 having increased immensely of late years. " Wherever 

 there is grain," wrote Dr. Heysham, in words still 



