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HAWFINCH. 



GROSBEAK. COMMON GROSBEAK. BLACK-THROATED GROSBEAK. . 

 HAW GROSBEAK. 



PLATE LXXXV. 



Coccotfirau-stes vulgaris, FLEMING. GOULD. 



Lojcia coccothrauxtes, LnfN-US. LA.THAM. 



Friiiy ilia coccothrau-stes, JENYXS. TEMMLNCK. 



I HATE been favoured by St. Aubin Molesworth St. Aubin, Esq., with 

 the nest and egg of this bird, which were taken in the parish of Beenham, 

 in the county of Berks: it is entirely composed of lichens and fine 

 roots. It is frequently placed in a thorn bush, or holly tree, as also in 

 oaks, the horse chesnut, apple, and fir trees of the different species, 

 at a height of twenty-five or thirty feet from the ground, often in a 

 very exposed situation. It is variously made of small twigs, such as 

 those of the oak and honeysuckle, intermixed with fragments of lichens, 

 in greater or less abundance. The lining consists of fine roots, vegetable 

 fibres, and a little hair, with feathers, according to Montagu. It is not 

 firmly compacted, towards which effect perhaps the principal material 

 contributes. 



The eggs are from four to six in number, of a pale olive green, 

 spotted with blackish brown, and irregularly streaked with dusky grey; 

 some are much less marked than others, and some are of a uniform 

 pale green-. 



There do not appear to be any very striking varieties. 



One is of a pale greenish grey white, with a few hair-like waved 

 streaks, and a few larger and smaller blackish spots. 



A second is grounded with a pale bluish white, with a few large 

 and small black spots, and a few hair streaks. 



A third is a pale greenish grey, with a very few hair-like streaks and 

 a few large spots, chiefly towards the broad end. 



