BRAMBLING, AND CHAFFINCH. ,. 381 



E. Brambling, Br. Zool i. N" 126. 



Norquint, Faun. Suec. N°,233, — Latham, u. 261. 



Le Pinfon d'Ardenne, BsBuffon, iv. 123. — PL Enl. 54. 2-. 



With head and back of a glofTy black, edged with dull yel- 

 low : bread, and lefTer coverts of the wings, orange : inner 

 coverts rich yellow : primaries dufl<y ; exterior fides edged with 

 yellow : tail a little forked ; black, with the outmoft webs of the 

 outmoft feather white. 



Breeds in the woods of Nordland and Drotitheim. In hard winters Placs. 



defcends into Eajl Gothland *. 



F. Chaffinch. Br. Zool. i. N° 125. 



Finke. Bofinke, Faun. Suec. N° 232 — De Bujbn, iv. 109, — PL Enl. ^^ Latham, 



ii. 257.— Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



"U^ With the front black : crown blueifh-grey : cheeks, throat, and 

 breaft, reddifli : upper part of the back tawny j lower, green : 

 wings and tail black, marked with white. Female of duller co- 

 lors: bread of a dirty white. 



Is found as high as Drontheim. Both fexes continue in England Place, 



the whole year. By admirable and unufual inftinfl, in Szveden the 

 females, to a bird, colleft in vaft flocks at the latter end of September, - 

 defert their mates, and, pafling through Schonen,I>enmark, Holftein, and 

 Holland, vifit feveral parts of Europe. They reach Holland about a 

 fortnight after Michaelmas, and at that time afford great amufement 

 to the gentry at their country houfes, in taking them while they fis 

 at tea in their pavilions. They fpread nets among their plantations, 

 and ftrew the ground with hemp-feed, by way of bait. The birds 

 arrive, and perch by thoufands in the trees : then alight on the 

 ground, hungry, and inattentive to the danger. The nets are 

 clofed by the pulling of a cord by the perfons in the pavilions ; and 



f Amcen, Acad, iv. 556. 



multitudes 



