452 



CHAFFINCH. 



Class II. 



2. Chaf- 

 finch. 



Fringilla Ccelebs. Fr. artubus 

 nigris, remigibus utrinque 

 albis, tribus primis immacu- 

 latis, rectricibus duabus ob- 

 lique albis. Lath. Ind. orn. 

 437. id. Syn. iii. 257. id. 

 Sup. 1. 165. 



Le Pinson. Belon av. 371 • 



Fringilla. Gesner av. 337. 



Aldr. av. ii. 336. 



Olina. 31. 



Wil. orn. 253. 



RaiiSyn. av. 88. 



Fringuello. Zinan. 61. 



Le Pinion. Brissonav. iii. 148. 



Hist, d'ois. iv. 109. Pl.Enl. 



54. f. 1. 

 Schinkovitz. Scopoli, No. 217- 

 Fringilla coelebs. Gm. Lin. 



901. 

 Fincke, Bofincke. Faun. Suec. 



sp. 232. 

 Buchfinck (Beaclifinch) 



Frisck, i. 1. 

 Finke. Kram. 367. 

 Bofinke. Br. 253. 

 Br. Zool. 108. plate V. f. 2. 



3. Arct.Zool. ii. 71. 



xHIS species entertains us agreeably with its 

 song very early in the year, but towards the 

 latter end of summer assumes a chirping note : 

 both sexes continue with us the whole year. 

 AVhat is very singular in Szveden, the females 

 quit that country in Septembe7\ migrating in 

 flocks into Holland, leaving their mates be- 

 hind ; in the spring they return."^' In Hampshire 

 Mr. White has observed something of this kind; 

 namely, vast flocks of females with scarcely 

 any males among them. Their nest is almost 

 as elegantly constructed as that of the goldfinch, 

 and of much the same materials, only the inside 



* Amcen. acad. ii. 42. iv. 5^5. 



