Case 110. 



BULLFINCH {Pynhula euwpcea). 

 Local names : Thick-bill, Nope. 



Generally distributed in wooded districts throughout Great Britain, 

 and Ireland, and frequenting high and tangled hedgerows, whence it 

 makes its way to orchards and gardens, where it has earned for itself 

 a bad reputation by the regular way in which it proceeds to bite off the 

 blossom buds of one bough after another. A white-thorn hedge or fork 

 of some evergreen bush or tree are among the sites selected for the nest. 

 (The one here shown is built in a fir tree). The eggs, four or five in 

 number (see British Bird Egg Cabinet, drawer 5), are laid in tlie early- 

 part of May. 



Case 111. 



CHAFFINCH {FringiUa ccelebs). 

 Local names : Pink-Pink, Fleckie. 



A resident species and generally distributed throughout the culti- 

 vated and wooded portions of the British Islands. The food consists 

 mostly of insects, varied, especially in winter, with seeds. The nest is 

 usually placed in a fork of the lower branches of a tree (here shown in a 

 yew tree) or in a bush, and is remarkable for its beautiful construction, 

 the whole of the materials being woven together so as to produce a 

 shapely nest of almost uniform consistency. It is generally covered 

 with lichen or other highly decorative material, and a nest has been 

 found carefully covered with confetti. The eggs vary in number from 

 four to six, and are of a pale greenish-blue, generally suffused with 

 reddish-brown and dark crimson markings (see British Bird Egg 

 Cabinet, drawer 4). The eggs are laid in April or May, and two broods, 

 are generally reared in the season. 



Case 112. 



GKEENFINCH {Liyurinus Moris). 

 Local name : Green Linnet. 



A resident and generally distributed species, frequenting cultivated 

 and wooded districts, and in times of hard frost seen in association with 

 sparrows, starlings and robins around dwellings. Its food consists. 

 mostly of grain, seeds and insects. The nest, a somewhat loose structure 

 of coarse fibrous roots, moss and wool, with a lining of hair and feathers, 

 is placed in hedges, shrubs and evergreens and even in trees (here shown 

 in ash tree). The eggs, from four to six in number, laid in April or May, 

 are in colour white or pale French white, with blotches and spots at the 

 larger end of reddish-brown and purplish-grey (see British Bird Egg 

 Cabinet, drawer 4). Two broods are often reared in the season. 



