SERIN FINCH. 1)9 



of France, in Italy, Greece, in that part of Switzerland 

 which borders on Italy, and more rarely in the south 

 and south-west of Germany. It is also found in 

 Central Germany, in the north of France, and in 

 Holland; but Naumami says it is not found in the 

 north of Germany. According to Faber, it has been 

 found and killed between 66° and 67° of north lati- 

 tude. It has also been found in the Hertz Mountains, 

 and, according to Bechstein, it is often seen in 

 Thuringia. Dr. Leith Adams informs me that it is an 

 autumn visitor at Malta, is common in Sicily, and 

 very common at Smyrna. Naumann remarks as worthy 

 of notice that the Serin Finch is not equally plentiful 

 in the same country, and Schinz writes to him that 

 he has never procured it in the Canton of Zurich, 

 though they are common a four hoars' journey out of 

 it. They are said to be plentiful in the neighbourhood 

 of Heidelberg and Offenbach, but in the country be- 

 tween very rare. Count Miihle says it is very common 

 in Greece, in company with Finches and Linnets, 

 and that its colours are in that country very bright. 

 Captain Loche includes it among the birds of Algeria; 

 .and Mr. Salvin ("Ibis," vol. i, p. 313,) says that it is 

 common about the olive-groves of Sousa, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Turin, but rare in the more elevated 

 and mountainous parts of the Eastern Atlas. 



A special interest attaches to this bird in consequence 

 of its having been recently captured in England, but 

 as it has not hitherto been figured as a British bird, 

 it comes into my list. The account of this capture 

 will be found related by Mr. Bond, in the "Zoologist" 

 for 1860, p. 7105. One specimen was said to have 

 been caught in a clap-net on the 20th. of June, 1859, 

 near Brighton; and a second near London, in October, 



