14 HAWFINCH. 



HAWFINCH. 



GROSSBEAK. COMMON GROSSBEAK. HAW GROSSBEA K. 

 BLACK-THROATED GROSSBEAK. 



PLATE LXXXV. 



Coccothraustes vulgaris, FLEMING. GOULD. 



Loxia coccothraus/es, LINNAEUS. LATHAM. 



Fringilla coccothraustes, JENYNS. TEMMINCK. 



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HAVE 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, in- 

 termixed 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 



