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HAWFINCH. 



GROSBEAK. COMMON GROSBEAK. 

 BLACK-THROATED GROSBEAK. HAW GROSBEAK. 



Coccoihraustes vulgaris, FLEMING. GOULD. 



Loxia coccothraustes, LINN^CUS. LATHAM. 



Fringilla coccothraustes, JENYNS. TEMMINCK. 



Coccothraustes Coccos A berry. Thrauo To break. 



Vulgaris Common. 



THE Hawfinch occurs throughout Europe, in Germany, 

 France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, as likewise, though more 

 rarely, in Sweden, Denmark, Siberia, and Russia. In Asia 

 also, according to Temminck, who includes it among the 

 birds of Japan, and in Africa, in Egypt, where Sonnini 

 relates that he saw it. 



In Yorkshire, specimens have been met with near Sheffield, 

 Killinbeck, near Leeds; Scriven, near Knaresborough ; Halifax, 

 York, Huddersfield, Barnsley, and Doncaster, in the West- 

 Hiding; and a few are generally killed every winter near 

 Bridlington, in the East-Biding. 



One was shot in the vicarage garden of Coddenham, Suffolk, 

 about the middle of January, 1850; so John Longe, Esq. 

 has informed me. In 1849, the Rev. R. P. Alington shot 

 one in his garden at Swinhope Rectory, Lincolnshire, and 

 heard of several others in the same neighbourhood. He says 

 of the one that he procured, 'It came to feed on the gravel 

 walk: upon my appearance, it would fly to the topmost? 

 branch of a neighbouring tree, and before I could get within 

 gun-shot, would fall like a stone among the laurel bushes, 

 from whence I at last found it so difficult to dislodge it, 

 that I was obliged to get a man on the other side with a 



