72 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guern- 

 sey and Sark. There are also a pair in the 

 Museum. 



62. CHAFFINCH. Fringilla coelebs, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Pinson ordinaire," " Grosbec pinson." 

 The Chaffinch is resident, tolerably common, and 

 generally distributed throughout the Islands, but is 

 nowhere so common as in England. In Guernsey 

 this year, 1878, it seemed to me rather to have 

 decreased in numbers, as I saw very few, certainly 

 not so many as in former years, though I 

 could not find that there was any reason for the 

 decrease. 



It is, of course, mentioned in Professor Ansted's 

 list, but by him only marked as occurring in 

 Guernsey and Sark. There is only one a female 

 at present in the Museum. 



63. BRAMBLING. Fringilla montifringilla, Lin- 

 naeus. French, " Pinson d'Ardennes." " Grosbec 

 d' Ardennes." The Brambling can only be con- 

 sidered an occasional autumn and winter visitant, 

 and probably never very numerous. I have never 

 seen the bird in the Channel Islands myself. I 

 have, however, one specimen a female killed in 

 Brock Koad, Guernsey, in December, 1878, and I 

 have been informed by Mr. MacCulloch that he had 

 a note of the occurrence of the Brambling or 

 Mountain Finch in January, 1855. It cannot, 



