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GREENFINCH. 
GREEN GROSBEAK. GREEN LINNET. 
Cocoothraustes chloris , 
Loxia chloris , 
Linaria chloris, 
Fringilla chloris , 
Fleming. Jardjne. 
Linnaeus. Latham. 
Macgillivray. 
Temminck 
Coccothraustes. Coccos —A berry. Thrauo —To break. Chloris. 
Chloros —Light green; properly, the colour of young grass. 
The geographical range of the Greenfinch is extensive 
throughout Europe and Asia. It is found from Sweden and 
Norway to Belgium and Crete, and the countries bordering 
on the Mediterranean; in Asia Minor and other parts. 
It is a plentiful species throughout the year in all the 
cultivated parts of England. The same remark applies to 
Scotland, excepting in the northern and western islands. In 
Ireland it is common, and resident in suitable localities. It 
is a winter visitant in Shetland and Orkney, frequently ap¬ 
pearing during that season with flights of Linnets, Larks, 
Snow Buntings, and other birds. 
About the middle of March, or earlier, they begin to move, 
and disperse over the length and breadth of the land, and 
by the middle of April they disappear from their winter 
haunts. 
Towards the end of autumn Greenfinches collect into 
flocks, frequently of considerable amount, attendant chiefly 
on the farmstead or its vicinity. They by no means isolate 
themselves from the company of other birds, especially those 
of their own ‘order’—Chaffinches, Yellow-hammers, and others, 
but though not exclusive in their habits, they in general 
keep by themselves in straggling parties; even ifi summer 
small docks have been seen: as many as thirty have been 
