72 BRITISH BIRDS. 



pale yellow ; bill dull yellowish-white, darker at tip ; 

 tarsi pale brown. Length nearly 6*00. Female : slightly 

 smaller ; plumage less yellow. Young : general tint is 

 brown, tinged with yellow and somewhat striated. 



A common resident, frequenting chiefly arable land and 

 placing nest in hedgerows and bushes at a height of 6 or 

 8 feet ; constructed of roots, twigs, moss and wool, lined 

 with wool, feathers and hair. Eggs : 4 to 6 ; whitish or 

 greenish-white, spotted and blotched with red-brown, light 

 red and grey ; size "82 by '57. Two broods are produced, 

 first eggs being laid at end of April. Call-note : a mono- 

 tonous, plaintive cree-e-e-e, uttered while perched on a 

 hedge or tree. The weak tremulous song may be syllabled 

 as tittle-tittle-tee, ter-ter-tee. 



GENUS XXXIX. COCCOTHRAUSTES, Brisson (1760). 

 Bill rather short, conical, veiy stout ; mandibles almost 

 equal, upper one rounded. Wings with ist primary 

 obsolete, 3rd longest, inner ones curved outward and with 

 jagged tips. Tail short, even. Tarsus short, stout ; claws 

 strong, somewhat curved. 



88. Coeeothraustes vulgaris, Pallas. HAWFINCH. 



Hab. Europe, south of lat. 60 N., but very local ; also 

 Asia Minor and N. Africa. 



Male : crown and cheeks orange-brown ; lores, feathers 

 at base of bill, and throat black ; nape ash-grey ; mantle 

 brown ; wings blackish, browner on secondaries ; greater 

 coverts chiefly white ; primaries with glolsy blackish-blue 

 tips and patches of white on inner webs ; upper tail- 

 coverts brownish-orange, reaching beyond middle of tail 

 which is white on terminal half and black at base ; under 

 parts pale rufous-brown ; bill bluish, blacker at tip ; tarsi 

 very pale brown. Length 7*00. Female duller. Young : 



