HAWFINCH. 535 



from London. Mr. H. L. Meyer, the author of Coloured 

 Illustrations of British Birds, now in course of publication, 

 gave me a specimen which was shot near Esher. In Kent 

 this species is observed to exist in considerable numbers 

 at Dartford, and about Maidstone. Mr. Gould says that 

 it is abundant on the estate of W. Wells, Esq. at Redleaf, 

 near Penshurst, that gentleman having, with the assist- 

 ance of a small telescope, counted eighteen at one time on 

 his lawn. The bird figured many years ago by Edwards 

 in his Gleanings of Natural History, was killed at Good- 

 wood in Sussex. They have been known to breed near 

 Windsor, and young birds were obtained when paying 

 their daily visits to some young peas in a garden, which 

 from concurring testimony appear to be much sought after 

 by these birds as food in summer. They have been no- 

 ticed about Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, and repeatedly 

 seen by Gilbert White at Selborne in Hampshire. It 

 has been obtained occasionally in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, 

 and in the eastern as well as western part of Cornwall. 

 According to Pennant, Montagu, and Mr. Eyton, it occurs 

 in winter in Gloucestershire and Shropshire ; it has been 

 met with at Ormskirk in Lancashire, and one was seen 

 frequently in the spring of 1833 about the gardens and 

 pleasure grounds at Woodside, four miles south of Car- 

 lisle. Mr. Thompson sends me word that the Hawfinch 

 has in a very few instances been obtained in different parts 

 of Ireland. 



Eastward and northward from London this bird is most 

 plentiful in the vicinity of Epping Forest, and is found as 

 far towards the east coast as Manningtree. It occurs in 

 Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and occasionally about 

 York ; but is not included by Mr. Selby in his Cata- 

 logue of the Birds of Durham and Northumberland. Sir 



