HAWFINCH. 



COCCOTRRAUSTES VULGARIS, Pallas. 



Coccothraustes vulgaris, Pallas, Zoogr. llosso-As. ii. p. 12 

 (1826) ; Hewitson, i. p. 205 ; Yarr. ed. 4, ii. p. 98 ; 

 Dresser, iii. p. 575. 



Coccothraustes atrogularis, Macg. i. p. 356. 



Fringilla coccothraustes, Nauru, iv. p. 435. 



Gros-bec, French ; Kernbeisser, German ; Cascanueces, 

 Piuonero, Pinzdn real, Spanish. 



This grotesque bird is now more or less common and 

 resident throughout the eastern, south-eastern, and 

 central counties of England as far to the northwards 

 as the Humber, and has of late years extended its 

 breeding-range into Yorkshire. In the western portion 

 of this kingdom it appears to be somewhat uncommon, 

 although it is in some years abundant in the winter 

 months in Ireland. In Scotland it is said to be a 

 somewhat scarce winter visitor. 



There is no doubt that many of this species visit 

 our country annually during the late autumn and 

 winter from the continent ; and within the limits of the 

 " four seas " it is, in common with the majority of its 

 congeners, to some extent a local migrant. In the 

 neighbourhood of our home in north Northamptonshire 

 the Hawfinch was an occasional and by no means a 



