GREATEST BULFINCH. 
Bay by Mr. Isham: who told me, they coo« 
tinue all the winter there; which is an argu- 
ment of their being very hardy birds. Na- 
ture seems to have given them strong and 
hooked bills, the better to enable them to pro^ 
vide for themselves, by pecking out the bud^ 
of trees and shrubs that are hardly visible in 
the rigid winters of North America. ' It is not 
common to meet with birds of so gay a co- 
iiour, in climates so far north: for it is ob- 
servable that, in very northern countries, birds 
have no colour but white, black, or brown; 
and that they are all water birds, few or no 
land birds being found by the whale-fishers hi 
Greenland. 
** Since I drew these birds, I happened to 
see, at Mr. Collet's, a merchant, in Weliclose 
Square, London, two of these birds in cages. 
He told me, that they were sent to him from 
Norway ; and, that they had moulted their 
feathers with him, and were not afterwards sq 
beautiful as they were at first. One of them 
was, seemingly, coloured hke our Greenfinch 
fChloris.] A Swedish gentleman," adds 
Edwards, lately in London, on seeing these 
drawings. 
