winters. Mr. White, in his hiftory of Selbourn, remarks, 
that flocks of females have 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 beftov^^ed on it in the 
north of England ; befides which it is known in different 
parts of this kingdom by the appellations of Bull-Spink, 
Pink, Scrobby, Beech-Finch, Shell-Apple, Skelly, Horfs- 
Finch, and Shillea. 
