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the spring-, or as soon as the pairing- season commences. The Hight of 
this bird, althoug-h usually confinecl to short distances, is very rapid, 
and has not unaptly been compared to the passage of a dart through the 
air. While in motion, it is always uttering a small twittering note, by 
which means it keeps the family together. It is often seen in company 
with the golden -crested wren, and others of its own tribe.* 
Its food consists of insects and their larvce, in search of which it 
pecks off the buds from the trees. *“ It seems,” says Knapp, “ the 
most restless of little creatures, and is all day long in a state of pro- 
gression from tree to tree, from hedge to hedge, jerking through the 
air with its long tail like a ball of feathers, or threading the branches of 
a tree, several following each other in a little stream ; the leading bird 
uttering a shrill cry of twit, twit, twit, and away they all scuttle to be 
first, stop for a second, and then are away again, observing the same 
order and precipitation the whole day long. The space travelled by 
these diminutive creatures, in the course of their progresses from the 
first move till the evening roost, must be considerable ; yet, l}y their 
constant alacrity and animation, they appear fully equal to their daily 
task.”* 
BOTTLE TOM. — A name for the Bottle Tit. 
BRAMBLIN. — The young of the Snow Bunting. 
BRAMBLING {Fringilla montifringilla, Linnaeus.) 
* Fringilla montifringilla, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 318, 4. — Faun. Suec. No. 233. — Gniel. 
Syst. 1. p. 902. sp. 4. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 439. sp. 17. — Raii, Syn. p. 88. 
— Will. p. 187. t. 45. — Br'iss. 3. p. 155 — Fringilla lulensis, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 
902. sp. 5. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 452. sp. 63. young female. — Le Pinson 
d’Ardennes, Buff. Ois. 4. p. 124. t. 14 — Ib. pi. Enl. 54. f. 2. male Gros- 
Bec d’Ardennes, Temm. Man. d’Orn, 1. p. 360. — Chardonneret a quatre 
raies, Biff'. Ois. 4. p. 210. — Berg-fink, Bechst. Naturg, Deut. 3. p. 97 
Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 151. — Frisch, t. 3. f. 2. — Brambling, or Mountain 
Finch, Br. Zool. 1. No. 126. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 381. E Lewin’s Br. Birds, 
t. 80. — Albin, 3. t. 64. — Will. (Ang.) p. 254. t. 45 Lath. Syn. 3. p. 261. 13. 
— Mont. Orn. Diet. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 218. — Don. Br. Birds, 4. t. 85. — 
Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 12. — Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. t. p. 163. male Shaw's 
Zool. 9. p. 444. t. 65. f. 2. copy from Bewick. — Lulean Finch, Lath. Syn. 8. 
p. 278. — Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. p. 380. B. — Selby, pi. 54. figs. 8. 9. 
p. 272. 
ProvinciaL — Kate.* 
This species is rather larger than the chaffinch. Length about six 
inches. 
The bill is yellow, tip black ; irides dusky. The head, hind part of 
the neck, and back, black ; some of the feathers edged with rusty brown 
and ash-colour, which last predominates on the back of the head and 
side of the neck ; the throat, breast, and upper coverts of the wings, 
ferruginous orange ; middle coverts yellowish white ; the greater coverts 
