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inner webs. Some of the greater coverts of the "wings, and 

 a few of the lesser near them, are whitish, forming a spot 

 or speculum, when the wing is closed. The breast and 

 under parts are pale brown, tinged with blossom-colour, 

 lightest on the belly. The tail-feathers are black, with 

 a portion of white on their inner webs. 



The female has the same distribution of colours, but 

 they are generally paler ; and the dark spot beneath her 

 chin is rather brown than black, and smaller in extent. 

 The legs and feet of both sexes are flesh- colour, tinged with 

 brown. 



The young birds before their first autumnal moult are 

 yellowish-brown, on their upper parts tinged with olive ; 

 beneath pale dull brown, with transverse irregular dusky 

 bars ; the throat is more or less mottled with black, indi- 

 cating its more mature state. 



" The nest of the Hawfinch," according to Mr. Barclay. 

 " resembles much that of the bulfinch, though considerably 

 larger, being composed of an abundance of twigs and small 

 dead sticks, closely put together, and lined with garden 

 bass and fibrous roots. The eggs are of an olive-green 

 ground, marked and blotched with dark brown." 



These eggs vary not much, in appearance, and all bear 

 the same characteristic appearance. The upper one re- 

 presented in the plate, was drawn from a specimen lent us 

 by Mr* Yarrell, many years ago, for our quarto work ; it was 

 spotted and streaked with dark olive and grey, and mea- 

 sured eleven lines and a half in length, and eight and a 

 half lines in diameter. The eggs are mostly four or five in 

 number. 



The eggs marked 114 and var. in the plate, represent 

 those of the Hawfinch. 



