GREENFINCH 



GREEN GROSSBEAK GREEN LINNET. 



PLATE LXXX1V. 



Liqurinus Moris, . . . LINNAEUS. 



Loxia Moris, .... LATHAM. 



Fringilla cMoris, . . . TEMMINCK. SEEBOHM. 



THE Greenfinch begins generally to build in April, or 

 even earlier ; the work has been known to have been 

 completed by the 26th of March. 



The nest is pretty well compacted, and much more so 

 in some instances than in others. It is composed of small 

 roots, twigs, moss, and straws, and lined with finer materials 

 of the same kinds, mingled, as the case may be, with thistle- 

 down, feathers, and hair ; one was once built in the trellis- 

 work near the drawing-room of Nafferton Vicarage, a few 

 yards from that of the Spotted Flycatcher ; but though 

 undisturbed, it was not resorted to the following year, as was 

 that of its near neighbour. It is placed in various situations 

 a low bush, or an evergreen, the ivy against a wall, or 

 between the branches of a tree. Many nests are often 

 found in proximity to each other in the same shrubbery; 

 more than one sometimes even in the same bush. 



The eggs, from four to six, or even seven in number, 

 are of a pale greenish white, spotted with darker purple, 



