536 FRINGILLIim 



William Jardine sends me word that it has been once or 

 twice killed in Dumfriesshire, but it is not common in 

 Scotland. 



The Hawfinch is included by Muller among his birds of 

 Denmark, and by Professor Nilsson in those of Sweden 

 and of Scandinavia generally, but it is considered rare ; it 

 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 very recently 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 ; 



