GREENFINCH 61 
seen in Maughold at the end of the same month. One 
taken near Ramsey, 14th October 1898, came into Mr. 
Kermode’s possession, and is now in the Ramsey Museum. 
From the distribution given below, it is, however, likely 
that this little bird is a regular visitant, if not a breeding 
species, 
Though best known in Ireland, as in England, as a 
winter migrant, the Siskin breeds locally in its four 
divisions, including those counties nearest to Man. It has 
also been reported as a resident from Kirkcudbrightshire, 
Cumberland, and Lancashire, though much more abundant 
in winter. In Orkney and Shetland it is a strageler, and 
has once only been recorded from the Outer Hebrides. 
LIGURINUS CHLORIS (Linn.). 
GREENFINCH. 
Green Linnet. Manx, Corkan-cheylley-glass (M. 8. D.)= 
Green Bullfinch (or Chaffinch ?).? 
This is one of the very common Manx small birds. It is 
not a bird of plantations, properly so called, nor does it 
penetrate into furze-clad or heathery wastes, but inhabits 
gardens and shrubberies, quick-set hedges, and the outskirts 
1 Likely this is the occasion mentioned to me by Mr, Allison, who observed a 
flock, once only, in that parish. 
2 *Corkan-cheylley ’ (little red or purple ‘ bird’ of the wood) is translated ‘ Bull- 
finch’ in this dictionary, and the addition ‘glass’=green distinguishes the pre- 
sent species. Whatever the equivalent of ‘corkan-cheylley’ may have meant in 
other Gaelic-speaking lands, it can scarcely have been used here for the Bullfinch, 
which does not exist in Man. Very little reliance can be placed on the specific 
meanings of dictionary translations, ‘Corkan-coille,’ given as the Gaelic for 
Bullfinch in Fauna of Outer Hebrides, is in O’Reilly and O’Donovan the name 
of ‘a sort of flower,’ and is not found among the Irish bird-names in Mr. 
Ussher’s work. In Man the Chaffinch is the species to which it would obviously 
apply. 
