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MOUNTAIN FINCH. 



SHAMBLING. BRAMBLE FINCH. LTJLEAN FINCH. 



Fringilla montifringilla, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" lulensis, GMELIN. 



Fringilla, also FrigillaK Chaffinch. Montifringilla Mons A mountain. 

 Fringilla A Chaffinch, or bird of the Finch kind. 



THIS handsome species is a native of some of the northern 

 parts of the European continent, being to be met with in 

 Norway, Sweden, Lapland, and Denmark; and on the other 

 hand, even so far south as Italy, and doubtless occasionally 

 in others of the neighbouring countries, 'where the blue waters 

 roll' of the tideless Mediterranean; from the 'Pillars of Her- 

 cules,' to the 'Holy Land' of Palestine,' for it is stated to 

 occur also in Asia, in Asia Minor, and even in Japan; the 

 latter according to M. Temmiuck. In Thuringia vast flocks 

 are said to assemble in the beech forests. 



In this country it is found of course most numerously in 

 the north, but also not very unfrequently even in the extreme 

 south in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall. Edward 

 Hearle llodd, Esq., of Trebartha Hall, sent Mr. Yarrell word 

 of a pair which were killed near the Land's End, in the 

 winter of the year 1836. Mr. George B. Clarke, of Woburn, 

 Bedfordshire, informs me that in some winters great num- 

 bers are seen in the Park of Woburn Abbey, the seat of His 

 Grace the Duke of Bedford, which they frequent to feed on 

 the beech-mast there. Two or three were seen near Pool 

 Cottage, Dewchurch, Herefordshire, in 1845: immense flocks 

 were met with near Farnham, Surrey, in the winter of 

 1842. In Sussex, A. E. Knox, Esq. says that they are 

 plentiful during protracted snow and frost, and that some 

 are captured every winter on the Downs in nets. In 



