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L. leucoptera leucoptera Grm. are decidedly small. Six eggs from N. America 

 in tlie British Museum average only 20.65 X 14.7 mm. [This form appears 

 to have occurred in the British Isles. For illustrations of the egg see 

 Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 19; id. Col. Fig., pi. 56.] 



30. Chaffincli, Friiigilla coelebs L. 



Plate 10, fig. 1—8 (Germany). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl., Tab. XXXVI, fig. 6, a — e. Hewitson, 

 I. Ed. I, pi. XVI, fig. 3, 4; II. Ed. I, pi. XLI, fig. 1; III. Ed. I, pi. XLIX, fig. 1. 

 Baedeker, Tab. 12, fig. 3. Taczanowski, Tab. LXXI, fig. 1. Seebohm, Brit. 

 Birds, pi. 13; id. Col. Fig., pi. 56. Frohawk, Br. Birds, pi. IV, fig. 148—155. 



Nest: 0. Lee, II, p. 10. 



British Local Names: Spink, ChinJc, Pink, Tivink, Scoppie, Shellie, 

 Shel-apple, Shilfa; Buck-, Horse-, Copper- and Beech-finch, Apple bird. 

 Manx: TJshag-y-choan. Welsh: Y Bink, Wine, Givinc, Asgell fraith. Gaelic: 

 Breacan-heithe. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Penkava ohecnd. Denmark: Bogfinke. 

 Finland: Finkki, Peipponen. France: Pinson, Quinson. Germany: Biich- 

 fink, Edelfink, Fink. Helgoland: Bochfink. Holland: Vink, Kwinker, Schild- 

 vink. Hungary: Erdei Pinty. Italy: Fringuello. Norway: Bog fink. Poland: 

 Zieba. Portugal: Tentilhdo. Russia: Sjablik. Sweden: Bofink. Spain: 

 Pinzon real. 



Fringilla coelehs L. Newton, ed. Yarrell, II, p. 68; Dresser, Birds of 

 Europe, IV, p. 3; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 306; Saunders, Man., p. 183. 

 F. coelehs coelehs L. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 125. 



Breeding Range: Europe generally, but scarce within the Arctic 

 Circle. [Also in W. Siberia, Asia Minor, Palestine, etc. Replaced by other 

 forms in N. Africa, the Azores, Canaries, etc., and does not breed in the 

 Faeroes or Iceland.] 

 British Generally distributed and plentiful throughout the cultivated and 



wooded parts of the British Isles, but naturally absent from the bare moor- 

 lands. In the north of Scotland it is found commonly in the straths as 

 far as the limits of tree and brushwood growth, and nests in small numbers 

 in the Orkneys. It has also been known to breed in the Shetlands, but 

 is absent from the open and treeless islands of the Outer Hebrides, although 

 nesting in the wooded islands off the west coast, such as Mull, Eigg, etc. 

 In Ireland it is a common resident everywhere, except in those districts 

 which are altogether destitute of trees. 

 Con- Here the Chaffinch is not only a familiar inhabitant of gardens, 



Europe Orchards, and in fact all localities where trees grow, but is also met with 

 in the deep forests, and on the mountain ranges as well as in the plains. 



