58 GOLDFINCH 
at Ballakillingan, and the same year one was seen in 
Baldwin by G. Adams, junior, and in February 1904 
Mr. T. Fargher sent me a specimen from Laxey, where he 
states he had seen none until that winter. In 1904 Mr. 
Graves found it nesting at Ballamoar, Patrick, the young 
being just hatched on 24th May and having left the nest by 
12th June. 
As the form britannica (Ridgw.) it is mentioned as 
occurring in the Isle of Man in Naumann’s Naturgeschichte 
der Vogel Deutschlands (new edition, vol. ii. p. 324), on 
authority of Hartert. 
The Creeper, a well-distributed species where localities 
are suitable, is described as local and not common in 
Lancashire; in Cumberland it is fairly common in the 
woods, and occurs in Lleyn and Anglesea. Mr. Service 
states that it is common in Galloway. It is found in 
north-eastern Ireland and generally over that island where 
there is old wood. It is said to have been seen in Orkney, 
but is unrecorded from Shetland or the Outer Hebrides. 
CARDUELIS ELEGANS, Stephens. 
GOLDFINCH. 
Manx, *Lossyr ny keeyley (M. S. D.)=flame of the woods. 
(Lossey ny cheylley, as Mr. Kermode gives it, is no doubt 
better Manx.) Kiark my Leydee (Cr.)=my lady’s hen. 
As in Lancashire, ‘ Flinch’ is here.a common error for ‘ Finch.’ 
Thirty or forty years ago the Goldfinch was, according to 
universal testimony, a common bird in the island. At that 
time Mr. G. Adams had seen ‘ hundreds’ in the neighbour- 
hood of Braddan; they were very abundant in Lonan and 
about Kirk Michael, and Mr. J. C. Crellin states that they 
