HAWFINCH. 535 
from London. Mr. H. L. Meyer, the author of Coloured 
Illustrations of British Birds, now in course of publication, 
gave me 2 specimen which was shot near Esher. In Kent 
this species is observed to exist in considerable numbers 
at Dartford, and about Maidstone. Mr. Gould says that 
it is abundant on the estate of W. Wells, Esq. at Redleaf, 
near Penshurst, that gentleman having, with the assist- 
ance of a small telescope, counted eighteen at one time on 
his lawn. The bird figured many years ago by Edwards 
in his Gleanings of Natural History, was killed at Good- 
wood in Sussex. They have been known to breed near 
Windsor, and young birds were obtained when paying 
their daily visits to some young peas in a garden, which 
from concurring testimony appear to be much sought after 
by these birds as food in summer. They have been no- 
ticed about Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, and repeatedly 
seen by Gilbert White at Selborne in Hampshire. It 
has been obtained occasionally in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, 
and in the eastern as well as western part of Cornwall. 
According to Pennant, Montagu, and Mr. Eyton, it occurs 
in winter in Gloucestershire and Shropshire; it has been 
met with at Ormskirk in Lancashire, and one was seen 
frequently in the spring of 1833 about the gardens and 
pleasure grounds at Woodside, four miles south of Car- 
lisle. Mr. Thompson sends me word that the Hawfinch 
has i a very few instances been obtained in different parts 
of Ireland. 
Eastward and northward from London this bird is most 
plentiful in the vicinity of Eppmg Forest, and is found as 
far towards the east coast as Manningtree. © It occurs in 
Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and occasionally about 
York; but is not included by Mr. Selby in his Cata- 
logue of the Birds of Durham and Northumberland. Sir 
