85 



the Teydean Chaffinch, F. teydea Webb & Berth, inhabits the pine woods 

 of the Peak of Tenerife. 14 eggs of F. c. canariensis average 21.8 X 15.4 

 mm. and are sparingly marked at the big end with fine red brown spots 

 or streaks on a pale bluish green ground.* The Teydean Chaffinch only 

 lays 2 eggs, blue green in ground colour with blackish brown spots and 

 underlying vinous blotches.f Average size of 6 eggs 23.45 X 16.45 mm. 

 As will be seen from the above, the eggs of the N. African and Atlantean 

 Chaffinches are as a rule larger and more sparingly marked than those of 

 the Continental form.] 



37. Bramlbling, Friiigilla moiitifriiigilla L. 



Plate 10, fig. 9—16 (Muonio, 8— 19. VI. 92). 



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

 I. Ed. Suppl. pi. CLXIX; II. Ed. I, pi. XLI, fig. 2; III. Ed. I, pi. XLIX, fig. 2, 3. 

 Baedeker, Tab. 12, fig. 2. Seebohm, Brit. Birds, pi. 13; id. Col. Fig., pi. 57. 

 Frohawk, Br. Birds, II, pi. V, fig. 156, 157. 



British Local Names: Mountain or Bramble Finch, Cock-d-tlie North. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Jihavec. Denmark: Kvaeker, Norsk 

 Bogfinke. Finland: Peippo. France: Pinson des Ardennes. Germany: 

 Berg fink. lielgo\a.nA: Quaker. HoWsind: Keep, Berg- ov Boschvink. Hungary: 

 Feny'6 rinty. Italy: Peppola. Lapland: Vintan. Norway: Bjergfink, Kvaeker. 

 Poland: Jer. Portugal: Tintihdo montez. Russia: Wjurok. Sweden: Berg- 

 fink, Norrqvint. Spain: Montanes, Millero. 



Fringilla montifringilla L. Newton, ed. Yarrell, II, p. 75; Dresser, 

 Birds of Europe, IV, p. 15; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 311; Saunders, Man. p. 185; 

 Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 130. 



Breeding Range: Scandinavia and N. Russia. [Also in Siberia up 

 to about 50° N. Lat.] (In the British Isles the Brambling is said to have 

 bred once or twice, but the evidence is not conclusive.) 



In many parts of Norway it is decidedly numerous, haunting the Con- 

 subalpine coniferous woods and also the birch forest, up to about 70° N. Lat., ^°^°**^ 

 while southward its range extends to about 59° N., where a few pairs 

 breed on the high fjeld. In Sweden is does not as a rule breed south of 

 lat. 62° or 63°, though occasional instances of nests in Upland and West- 

 manland (about lat. 60°) are on record. In Lapland it is numerous and 

 breeds on the Kola peninsula and throughout northern Russia, while 

 Bianchi has recently recorded it as breeding in the S. Petersburg Govern- 

 ment, but in the Urals its range does not extend beyond lat. 62°, 



* Egg-s figured in Journ. f. Ornith. 1890, Tab. VIII, fig. 3. 

 t Eggs figured ibid. Tab. VIII, fig. 1. 



