514 FRINGILLID.E. 



ill his Cornish Fauna ; and E. H. Rodd, Esq., of Penzance, 

 has sent me word that a pair of these birds were killed near 

 the Land's End in the winter of 1836-37., which are now 

 preserved in his collection. William Thompson, Esq., of 

 Belfast, includes it in his notes sent me as one that occa- 

 sionally occurs in winter in various parts of Ireland. Sir 

 William Jardine, in reference to Dumfries- shire, says it ap- 

 pears in flocks about the beginning of November, frequent- 

 ing beech trees, and feeding on the mast ; and Mr. Mac- 

 gillivray mentions having fallen in with a flock also on some 

 beech trees about a mile from Corstorphine, near Edinburgh, 

 from which he shot two birds, and has seen many others 

 that had been killed in Scotland. 



It is not an uncommon bird in Denmark. Mr. Hewit- 

 son saw them at one place in the southern part of Norway, 

 where they were breeding ; it is known to breed also in the 

 woods of Norholm and Drontheim, and is said to breed in 

 Lapland. M. Nilsson says that in the southern parts of 

 Sweden it is only a winter visitor, appearing in autumn, 

 and remaining till April. This species is described as 

 building in fir trees, the nest formed of moss, and lined with 

 wool and feathers : the eggs four or five in number, white, 

 tinged with yellow, and spotted with dark red like those 

 of the Chaffinch. The call-note of this bird is a single 

 monotonous chirp. 



This species ranges in winter over the European Conti- 

 nent as far south as Italy, Sicily, and Malta ; was seen by 

 Mr. Strickland at Smyrna ; and is included by M. Tem- 

 minck in his Catalogue of the Birds of Japan. 



The male in winter has the beak yellowish white, with 

 the point bluish black ; the irides brown ; the top of the 

 head, cheeks, ear-coverts, nape of the neck, and the back, 

 mottled with brown and black, each feather being black at 



