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of woodland, while in winter it flocks to stackyards and the 
neighbourhood of villages. Its nesting begins at the end 
of April or commencement of May. 
A specimen had been taken on the Calf shortly before 
our visit in May 1901. 
The species occurs but rarely in the Manx notices in the 
migration reports, but one hundred were seen at Point of 
Ayre in October 1880, seven or eight hundred at Langness 
on 19th November 1884, after-rushes during the same 
month and late October, and a large flock appeared at the 
same place on the morning of 23rd October 1887. 
In Ireland it is abundant, numbers being increased in 
winter. An abundant bird in all cultivated parts of the 
British mainland, it now breeds in Orkney, and is known 
as a migrant in Shetland and the Outer Hebrides. 
COCCOTHRAUSTES VULGARIS, Pallas. 
HAWFINCH. 
Mr. Kermode, in his revised list (1888), says of this 
species: ‘ Acc[idental]. Has been taken occasionally in the 
autumn and winter’; and in his latest list (1901): ‘ Rare 
and occasional winter migrant.’ No details of occurrences 
are there given, but Mr. Kermode tells me that on 7th 
November 1881 he saw at Adams’s a specimen which had 
recently been shot at Abbeylands, Onchan, and had heard 
of other occurrences of which he did not preserve par- 
ticulars. 
Mr. Leach says that on 2nd January 1897 he saw one in 
thorn bushes at Spring Valley. ‘It was in a corner of the 
wood on the side of the New Castletown Road facing 
Springfield.’ Mr, Leach also saw a fine specimen exhibited 
