154 SECOND VESIT: TO: THE. NORTH: OFY KENT 
fine fibres, such as those of the hedge-sparrow, 
thrush, and many others, being more solid 
and deeper, and the materials were more 
loosely put together and consisted of thick 
rootlets intermixed with moss, the lning 
being wool, horsehair, and feathers. It was 
evidently the nest of a greenfinch. Any one 
who has heard the long drawn out ‘twa-a-y ’ 
of the greenfinch as it sits on a bush top, when 
it thinks you are interfering with the nest or 
at other times cannot forget it. It has other 
notes impossible to attempt in words, which 
it keeps often uttering to its fellows near by. 
It is a sturdy rather heavy-looking bird, 
somewhat of the linnet type. The plumage is 
very distinctive, viz., greenish-yellow, or 
we may put it yellowish-green, toned down 
by a good deal of dull grey here and there. 
The yellow in the male is bright in full sun- 
light, but it is not often that one has the 
chance of seeing the birds thus lit up, for they 
hide themselves much on your approach 
in thick greenery. The hen is about the same 
size and has the same plumage, but it is much 
