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BULLFINCH. 



NOPE. POPE. ALP. HOOP. COMMON BULLFINCH. 



Loxia pyrrhula, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Pyrrhula vulgaris, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Loxia. Loxos Oblique transverse, (from the shape of the bill in some 



species.) Pyrrhula. Pyrrhulas Some bird with red plumage. 



Pyrros Red. 



THIS is a strikingly handsome species an ornament of 

 the country. In Europe, it inhabits Russia, Denmark, 

 Norway, Sweden, and Germany; in Asia also it occurs, being 

 found in Tartary, and in Japan, according to Thunberg and 

 Temminck. 



It is met with throughout England, Ireland, and Scotland; 

 in Orkney one was shot at Lopness, by Mr. Strang, in 1809. 



In the spring time it is to be seen more frequently in 

 gardens and orchards, and may be nearly approached in its 

 search there for food. In the winter it meets you in the 

 lane, or by the hedgerow in the field. 



A true 'Bird of the green wood,' the Bullfinch avoids 

 the more sterile, or the more highly cultivated districts; for 

 here, as in so many other instances, 'extremes meet,' and the 

 absence of timber, in our country at least, alike betokens 

 the highest and the lowest degree of cultivation. It frequents, 

 therefore, those where trees abound, being to be seen in the 

 depth of the large wood, along the side of the shady grove, 

 in the rich orchard, the budding plantation, the trim garden, 

 the leafy hedge, and the secluded dell through which some 

 little streamlet winds, the gentle trickling of which you 

 listen to with complacent pleasure while you saunter along 

 the bank in the noon of a summer day. Everywhere his 

 rich red colour forms a conspicuous object, so that, like the 



