Class IL BRAMBLING FINCH. 455 



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 

 are edged and tipt with ash color. 



It migrates in Italy, and takes its departure 

 later than the chaffinch. 



" The Brambling visits England occasionally, 

 but rarely, if ever, breeds here. Mr. Bewick, 

 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. 



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