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months, and to be fond of shady places, making its nest on shore 
amongst shrubs, particularly about the most rapid torrents. It dives 
admirably in search of small shell-fish, on which it feeds, as well as on 
the spawn of fish, and the larvce of the gnat. Has been found fre- 
quently in the small rivulets of Hudson’s Bay, ninety miles inland: most 
probably frequenting such places in preference to large rivers, during 
the breeding season. It flies swiftly, and to a great height, so that it is 
not easily taken. The note is a sort of a whistle. ‘‘ This species,” 
says Wilson, is very rare on the coasts of the middle and southern 
States of America, though not unfrequently found off those of New 
England, where it is known by the dignified title of Lord, probably 
from the elegant crescents and circles of white which ornament its 
neck and breast.” It lays ten or twelve eggs, like those of the pigeon. 
In autumn, when the young are capable of flying, they migrate south- 
ward, to pass the winter in the open sea. It is a rare visitant on the 
northern coast of Scotland. 
HATCHING. — Treated of under Incubation. 
HAW-FINCH (Fringilla coccothraustes, Temminck.) 
*Fringilla coccothraustes, Temm. Man, d’Orn. 1. p. 344. — Loxia coccothraustes, 
Linn. 1. p. 299. — Faun. Suec. No. 222. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 844. sp. 2. — 
Syn. p. 85. A. 1. — Will. p. 150. — Briss. 3. p. 219. 1. — Le Gros-bec, Buff. Ois. 
3. p. 44. t. 27. f. 1. — lb. pi. Enl. 99. and 100. — Temm. Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 344. 
Kirsch Kernbeisser, Bechst. Naturg. Dent. 3. p. 35. — Meyer, Tasschenb. 1. p. 
143. — Frisch, t. 4. f. 2. A. B. — Appel-vink, Sepp, Vdg. 2. t. p. 137. — Gros- 
beak or Hawfinch, Br. Zool. No. 113. — Arc.. Zool. 2. p. 354. C. Will. (Angl.) 
p. 244, 44. — Alhin, 1. t. 56. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 67. — Lath. Syn. 3. p. 
109. 4. — Ib. Supp. p. 148. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 11 
Wale. Syn. 2. t. 206. — Don. Br. Birds, 2. t. 43. — Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 133. 
Shaw’s Zool. 9. p. 236. pi. 42. — Flem. Br. Anim. — Selby, pi. 55. fig. 1. p. 262.* 
The length of this species is six inches ; weight about two ounces. 
The bill is three quarters of an inch long, half an inch thick at the 
base, and remarkably strong, of a pinkish hue when alive, but soon 
fades to a light-brown horn colour ; irides grey ; the crown of the head 
and cheeks are bay ; between the bill and eye, and round the nostrils, 
black ; the chin and throat the same ; hind part of the neck ash- 
coloured ; the back and scapulars chestnut-brown ; rump and upper tail 
coverts light brown, inclining to ash-colour ; the breast light brown, 
Tinged with blossom-colour ; whitish towards the vent ; the greater 
quills are dusky black ; the points, from the fourth, including the 
secondary quills, as far as the fifteenth or sixteenth, are glossy bluish- 
black, truncated at their ends, and four or five of them bent in form of 
a battle-axe ; on the middle of their inner webs a white spot ; three or 
four of the lesser quills close to the body are the colour of the back ; 
the smallest coverts dusky ; beneath a few are white, making a small 
