winters. Mr. White, in his hiftory of Selbourn, remarks, 

 that flocks of females h:-:ve been obferved in that neighbour- 

 hood about Chriftmas. 



The note of the Chaffinch is very fimple, " it commences 

 about the 26th of January, and continues till the 8th of 

 March at other times both fexes have a call expreffing the 

 word Spink or Twink, names that are bellowed on it in the 

 north of England; befides which it is known in different 

 parts of this kingdom by the appellations of Bull- Spink, 

 Fink, Scrobby, Beech-Finch, Shell-Apple, Skelly, Horfe- 

 Finch, and Shillea. 



