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bird : the beak is a pale flesh-colour ; irides hazel ; 

 nearly all the upper parts darkish olive-green ; the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts the brightest and most 

 tinged with light green; greater wing-coverts and 

 tertials dusky grey, darkest in the centre of the 

 feathers ; the wing from the carpus to the base of the 

 primaries is bordered with bright yellow; quills 

 greyish black, edged for about two-thirds of the way 

 with bright yellow ; the tail has the two centre 

 feathers dusky grey, the rest have the basal half 

 bright yellow and the tips dusky ; chin yellow ; rest 

 of the under parts olive-green, lighter and more 

 tinged with yellow than the upper parts ; under tail- 

 coverts light yellow ; legs, toes and claws pale wood- 

 brown. The female is duller in colour, and nearly 

 all the plumage is much tinged with dull brown. 

 The young birds are something like the female, but 

 at first are nearly all olive-brown and the beaks are 

 dark bluish horn. 



The eggs are a very pale whitish green, spotted 

 on the upper thick end with two shades of reddish 

 brown. 



HAWFINCH, Coccothraustes vulgaris. The Haw- 

 finch, or, as it is occasionally called, the " Gros- 

 beak," is a rather rare winter visitor to these parts, 

 never remaining through the summer, although in 

 rather more northern counties, and even as far south 

 as the neighbourhood of London, it is known to 

 remain through the summer and to breed. 



