BRITISH BIRDS. 241 



THE GROSBEAK. 



HAWFINCH. 



(Fringilla Coccothra-ustes, Temm. Gros-bec vulgatre, 

 Temm.j 



LENGTH nearly seven inches. Bill of a horn 

 colour, conical, and prodigiously thick at the base; 

 eyes ash-grey;, the space between the bill and the 

 eye, and thence to the chin and throat, is black; 

 the top of the head reddish chesnut, as are also 

 the cheeks, but somewhat paler, back part of the 

 neck greyish ash ; the back and lesser wing coverts 

 chesnut; the greater wing coverts grey, in some 

 almost white, forming a band across the wing; the 

 quills are all black, excepting some of the second- 

 aries nearest the body, which are brown; the four 

 outer quills seem as if clipped off at the ends; the 

 primaries have each a spot of white about the 

 middle of the inner web; breast and belly pale 



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