Bo) N° C1 4k, 
Fringilla montifringilla, Lin. Sy. i. p. 218. 4.— Faun. Succ. 233.— 
Scop. ann. i, 218.—Brua. 255. aie —Muller, N° 2536.—Kram. el. 
p- 367. 3-—Olim. pl. in p.32-—Frifch. pl. 3 
Le Pingon d’Ardennes, Bri/: crz, ill. p. 155+ 37: ie oif. iv. Pp. 124.— 
Pl. enl. 54. f. 2. 
Bramble, Brambling, or Mountain Finch, Raié Syz. p. 88. A.—Will. orn. 
p- 254. pl. 45.—Albin. tii. pl. 64.—Br. Zosl. i. N° 126.—Aré. 
Zool. 
Br. Maf. Lev. Muf- 
ENGTH fix inches and a quarter. Bill yellowifh; tip 
black: the head, hind part of the neck, and back, are 
black *, margined with rufous brown: rump white: throat, fore 
part of the neck, and breaft, pale rufous orange: lower part of 
the breaft and belly white: leffer wing, coverts pale rufous ; the 
middle ones rufous white ;. the greateft black, tipped with white, 
and thofe neareft the body with pale rufous: quills brown, with 
yellowith edges: tail a little forked: legs grey. 
The female is plainer in colour, and is brown where the male 
is black,.and rufous grey where he is rufous. 
This fpecies migrates into England at certain feafons, but does 
not build here: it is frequently found among Chaffinches, and 
fometimes comes in vaft flocks: I have had eighteen brought to 
me’ at once, which were killed at a fingle fhot. Thefe are 
alfo feen, at certain times, in vaft clouds in France +, infomuch 
that the ground has been quite covered with their dung, and 
more than “fix hundred dozen were killed each night. Said 
® Tn fome the throat is black.- 
+, Hift. des oif.—Willughby. obferves,. that they are common in the poulterers 
fhops in winter. P. 254. 
a to 
261 
13. 
+ BRAMBLING. 
Description. 
FEMALE» 
PLACE AND 
Manners. 
