G3 
MOUNTAIN FINCH. 
BR AMBLINGr. BRAMBLE FINCH. LULEAN FINCH. 
Friiigilla montifringilla , 
“ lulensis , 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Gmelin. 
Fringilla , also Frigilla— A Chaffinch. Montifringilla Mons — A mountain. 
Fringilla — A Chaffinch, or bird of the Finch kind. 
Thts handsome species is a native of some of the northern 
parts of the European continent, being to be met with in 
Norway, Sweden, Lapland, and Denmark; and on the other 
hand, even so far south as Italy, and doubtless occasionally 
in others of the neighbouring countries, ‘where the blue waters 
roll’ of the tideless Mediterranean; from the ‘Pillars of Her¬ 
cules,’ to the ‘Holy Land’ of Palestine,’ for it is stated to 
occur also in Asia, in Asia Minor, and even in Japan; the 
latter according to M. Temminck. In Thuringia vast flocks 
are said to assemble in the beech forests. 
In this country it is found of course most numerously in 
the north, but also not very unfrequently even in the extreme 
south—in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall. Edward 
Hearle Bodd, Esq., of Trebartha Hall, sent Mr. Yarrell word 
of a pair which were killed near the Land’s End, in the 
winter of the year 1886. Mr. George B. Clarke, of Woburn, 
Bedfordshire, informs me that in some winters great num¬ 
bers are seen in the Park of Woburn Abbey, the seat of His 
Grace the Duke of Bedford, which they frequent to feed on 
the beech-mast there. Two or three were seen near Pool 
Cottage, Dewchurch, Herefordshire,. in 1845: immense flocks 
were met with near Farnham, Surrey, in the winter of 
1842. In Sussex, A. E. Knox, Esq. says that they are 
plentiful during protracted snow and frost, and that some 
are captured every winter on the Downs in nets. In 
