HAWEFINCH. 
COCCOTHRAUSTES VULGARIS, Pallas, 
Coccothraustes vulgaris, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-As. 11. p. 12 
(1826) ; Hewitson, i. p. 205; Yarr. ed. 4, ii. p. 98; 
Dresser, 11. p. 575. 
Coccothraustes atrogularis, Macg. 1. p. 356. 
Fringilla coccothraustes, Nawm. iv. p. 435. 
Gros-bec, French; Kernbeisser, German; Cascanueces, 
Pifonero, Pinzén real, Spanish. 
This grotesque bird is now more or less common and 
resident throughout the eastern, south-eastern, and 
central counties of England as far to the northwards 
as the Humber, and has of late years extended its 
breeding-range into Yorkshire. In the western portion 
of this kingdom it appears to be somewhat uncommon, 
although it is in some years abundant in the winter 
months in Ireland. In Scotland it is said to be a 
somewhat scarce winter visitor. 
There is no doubt that many of this species visit 
our country annually during the late autumn and 
winter from the continent ; and within the limits of the 
“four seas”? it is, in common with the majority of its 
congeners, to some extent a local migrant. In the 
neighbourhood of our home in north Northamptonshire 
the Hawfinch was an occasional and by no means a 
