GREENFINCH. 1 1 



GREENFINCH. 



GREEN GROSSBEAK. GREEN LINNET. 

 PLATE LXXXIV. 



Coaothraus/es Chlon's, FLEMING. JARDINE. 



Loxia Chkris, LINNAEUS. LATHAM. 



Linaria Chloris, MACGILLIVRAY. 



Fringilla Chloris, TEMMINCK. 



1VT~IDIFICATION begins generally in April, or even 

 -1-^ 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. 



