HAWFINCH. 563 



occurs sparingly in Russia, but is found in Siberia and 

 Northern Asia. On the European continent it is plenti- 

 ful, in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, Corfu, Sicily, 

 and Malta. M. Temminck includes the Hawfinch in his 

 Catalogue of the Birds of Japan, and the Zoological So- 

 ciety have received a skin of this bird from China. 



The beak of the adult male in summer is blue, around 

 the base is a line of black, which on the lore reaches to 

 the eye ; the irides greyish white ; the top of the head, 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, and nape of the neck, fawn colour, 

 lightest on the forehead and cheeks, darkest on the nape of 

 the neck ; lower part of the neck above grey ; upper part 

 of the back, scapulars, and part of the tertials, rich chest- 

 nut brown ; smaller wing-coverts black ; larger wing- 

 coverts white, except the three nearest the body of the 

 bird, which are fawn colour ; quill-feathers bluish black, 

 with more or less white on the inner webs ; the fifth and 

 four succeeding primaries singularly formed, like an an- 

 tique battle or bill -hook, a figure of a feather is given ; 

 the other quill -feathers nearer the body are square at 



the end; rump and upper tail-coverts fawn colour; the 

 outside tail-feather on each side black at the base and on 

 the outer web, the distal half of the inner web white ; the 

 next four on each side also black at the base, with the 

 ends of both webs white, the proportion of white diminish- 

 ing in each feather ; the two centre tail-feathers rather 



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