GREENFINCH. 



GREEN GROSBEAK. GREEN LINNET. 



PLATE LXXXIV. 



Coccothraustes Cliloris, FLEMING. JABBINE. 



Lo.ria ChJoris, LnrN^us. LATHAM. 



Linaria CJiJoris, MACGILLTTHAT. 



Fringilla Chloris, TEMMINCK. 



NIDIFICATION begins generally 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 propinquity 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 bluish 

 or purple reddish white, spotted with darker purple, grey, and blackish 

 brown, streaked also in general more or less with black. They differ 

 much in size, shape, and colour; sometimes the whole surface is mottled 

 over, and again, there have been known no markings at all: the smaller 

 end is rather pointed. 



Two broods are frequently reared in the season. The young, when 

 fledged, fly off in a body from the nest, if approached. The young of 



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