Class II. BRAMBLING FINCH. 45.5 



with black, tipt with orange ; the inner coverts 

 at the base of the wings are of a fine yellow ; 

 the quil feathers are dusky ; but their exterior 

 sides edged with yellow ; the tail a little forked ; 

 the exterior web of the outmost feather is white, 

 the others black, except the two middle, which j..?^ 

 are edged and tipt with ash color. 



It migrates in Italy ^ and takes its departure 

 later than the chaffinch. 



" The Brambling visits £w^'/^2^ occasionally, 

 but rarely, if ever, breeds here. Mr. Bezvick^ 

 however, mentions having seen these birds on 

 the Cumberland hills in August ^ which gives an 

 air of probability to the circumstance. It some- 

 times assembles in vast flocks ; I once had 

 eighteen brought to me in Kent which were 

 killed with one discharge of the fowling-piece." 

 J. L. 





