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a variety of plumage; for I observe that Count Salvadori’s description of this species in summer 
dress agrees closely with my specimens from Baden. Lord Lilford says, “the spot they par- 
ticularly seemed to affect was a stony grass-grown space near a shepherd’s hut amongst the 
‘macchie’ or dense evergreen thicket which covers a great part of Corsica. We did not meet 
with them elsewhere in either of my late cruises in the Mediterranean.” 
It is found in Southern Germany, and is stated to be not uncommon in the Tyrolean Alps; 
but Mr. Seidensacher told me he had never met with it in Styria, where, on the other hand, 
Serinus hortulanus is tolerably common. ‘The Ritter von Tschusi-Schmidhofen informs me that, 
according to Professor Jeitteles, one was obtained in a garden near Olmiitz in March 1868. He 
himself does not know of any instance of its having bred in Austria, but only in the Tyrol, where 
it is found in the southern portion of that country. 
Lord Lilford met with it in Corfu and Epirus, where, he writes (Ibis, 1860, p. 138), it is 
common in summer, but he is unaware if it leaves the island in winter. Both Lindermayer and 
Von der Miihle record its occurrence in Greece, but say that it is met with only in the hills in 
the winter season, and they are unaware if it remains to breed there. Von der Mihle obtained 
specimens from the hills of Platana and Malabo. Messrs. Elwes and Buckley also state that 
Mr. Robson obtained it near Constantinople, which is the most easterly locality where it appears 
to have been obtained; and I do not find any instance of its occurrence in Asia Minor or Africa, — 
except by Loche, who obtained examples near la Calle, in Algeria; but he adds that he considers 
it to be an exceptional straggler. 
Strictly a mountain bird during the breeding-season, the Citril Finch inhabits suitable 
localities in the mountains at an elevation of from about 3000 feet above the sea-level to the 
limit of tree-growth; and only during the autumn and winter, when driven from its elevated 
home by stress of weather or difficulty in obtaining food, does it leave the mountains and 
visit their base adjoining the plains; but, so far as I could ascertain, it is never found on 
the plains themselves. When at Staufen, in Baden, in June last (1875), I was informed by 
Mr. Schiitt that it is by no means very rare in the mountains of the Black Forest, behind that 
town; and in order to have an opportunity of seeing it he took me up to the top of the Belchen, 
the second highest mountain of the Black Forest, where it is always to be met with during the 
summer. On arriving at the summit, where there is a tolerably comfortable inn, the elevation 
being nearly 4800 feet above the sea-level, I at once went in search of the Citril Finch, which 
frequents the edge of the fir-woods which clothe the sides of the mountain up to within a short 
distance of the summit. However, after climbing and scrambling for several hours until late in 
the evening, and seeing nothing but Water-Pipits, Titmice, a Sky-Lark, a few Tree-Pipits, &c., I 
returned to the inn somewhat disappointed; for the innkeeper, who knows the bird well, assured 
me that he had seen the birds that day, and that he knew of a nest from which the young had 
flown about a week previously. Whilst sitting at the open window, waiting until some food 
could be prepared, and admiring the magnificent panorama before me, my attention was called 
by my companion to the melancholy call-note of a bird; and the next minute a pair of Citril 
Finches perched on the hand-rail in front of the inn, not ten paces from the window, and the 
next moment flew off to a stone fence a little further distant. ‘To seize my gun and knock over 
the nearest bird was the work of an instant; but unfortunately the second bird, the male, flew off 
