196 PASSERINE. FRINGILLA. CARDUELIS. 



is short, modulated, and mellow, but apt to become tiresome 

 from being incessantly repeated. The nest, which is very 

 neatly constructed of moss, lichens, grass, and other materials, 

 with a lining of wool, hair, and feathers, is usually placed on 

 a tree, or shrub. The eggs, four or five, are oval, nine-twelfths 

 long, six and a half twelfths broad, purplish-white, or pale 

 reddish-grey, sparsely spotted with reddish-brown, and having 

 a few irregular lines of the same. Two broods are reared. 



Pink. Spink. Twink. Shilfa. Shelly. Shell-apple. Chaffy. 

 Boldie. Beech Finch. Horse-dung Finch. 



Fringilla coelebs, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 318. Fringilla coelebs, 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. i. 357. Fringilla coelebs, Chaffinch, 

 MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 329. 



121. FRINGILLA MONTIFRINGILLA. MOUNTAIN FINCH, OR 

 BRAMBLING. 



Male with the head and back deep black, the feathers mar- 

 gined with yellowish-grey ; rump white, tinged with yellow ; 

 fore neck and breast light reddish-brown, sides spotted with 

 black. Female with the head and back pale greyish-red, the 

 central part of each feather brownish-black ; rump greyish- 

 white ; breast pale reddish-brown. 



Male, 6, 10-J, 3f, -&, , T V, T V Female, 6, 10. 



This species, which is very nearly allied to the Chaffinch 

 in its general form and style of colouring, as well as its habits, 

 is very liable to be confounded with that bird, when seen at 

 some distance. It is a winter visitant from the northern re- 

 gions, and has been met with in most parts of Scotland and 

 England. 



Bramble Finch. 



Fringilla Montifringilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 318. Fringilla 

 Montifringilla, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. i. 360. Fringilla Mon- 

 tifringilla, Mountain Finch or Brambling, MacGillivray, Brit. 

 Birds, i. 335. 



GENUS LXI. CARDUELIS. THISTLE-FINCH. 



Bill shortish, straight, strong, conical, higher than broad 

 in its whole length, tapering to a very slender point ; upper 

 mandible with the dorsal line nearly straight, the ridge nar- 

 row, the sides slightly convex, the edges direct, destitute of 

 notch, the tip extended considerably beyond that of the lower 

 mandible, of which the angle is semicircular, the dorsal line 





