536 FRINGILLID &. 
William Jardine sends me word that it has been once or 
twice killed in Dumfriesshire, but it is not eommon in 
Scotland. 
The Hawfinch is included by Miller among his birds of 
Denmark, and by Professor Nilsson in those of Sweden 
and of Scandinavia generally, but it is considered rare ; it 
occurs sparingly in Russia, but is found m Siberia and 
Northern Asia. On the European continent, it is plenti- 
ful, in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, Corfu, Sicily, 
and Malta. M.'Temminck includes the Hawfinch in his 
Catalogue of the Birds of Japan, and the Zoological So- 
ciety have very recently received a skin of this bird from 
China. 
The beak of the adult male in summer is blue, around 
the base is a line of black, which on the lore reaches to 
the eye; the irides greyish white; the top of the head, 
cheeks, ear-coverts, and nape of the neck, fawn colour, 
lightest on the forehead and cheeks, darkest on the nape of 
the neck ; lower part of the neck above grey ; upper part 
of the back, scapulars, and part of the tertials, rich chest- 
nut brown; smaller wing-coverts black; larger wing- 
coverts white, except the three nearest the body of the 
bird, which are fawn colour; quill-feathers bluish black, 
with more or less white on the inner webs; the fifth and 
four succeeding primaries singularly formed, like an an- 
tique battle or bill-hook,—a figure of a feather is given; 
