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HAWFINCH. 
GEOSBEAK. COMMON GEOSBEAK. 
BLACK-THBOATEI) GEOSBEAK. HAW GEOSBEAK. 
Coccothraustes vulgaris , Fleming. Gould. 
Loxia coccothraustes , Linnaeus. Latham. 
Fringilla coccothraustes , Jenyns. Temminck 
Coccothraustes— Coccos — A berry. Thrauo — To break. 
Vulgaris — Common. 
The Hawfinch occurs throughout Europe, in Germany, 
France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, as likewise, though more 
rarely, in Sweden, "Denmark, Siberia, and Russia. In Asia 
also, according to Temminck, who includes it among the 
birds of Japan, and in Africa, in Egypt, where Sonnini 
relates that he saw it. 
In Yorkshire, specimens have been met with near Sheffield, 
Killinbeck, near Leeds; Scriven, near Knaresborough; Halifax, 
York, Huddersfield, Barnsley, and Doncaster, in the West- 
Riding; and a few are generally killed every winter near 
Bridlington, in the East-Riding. 
One was shot in the vicarage garden of Coddenham, Suffolk, 
about the middle of January, 1850; so John Longe, Esq. 
has informed me. In 1849, the Rev. R. P. Alington shot 
one in his garden at Swinhope Rectory, Lincolnshire, and 
heard of several others in the same neighbourhood. He says 
of the one that he procured, ‘It came to feed on the gravel 
walk: upon my appearance, it would fly to the topmost 
branch of a neighbouring tree, and before I could get within 
gun-shot, would fall like a stone among the laurel bushes, 
from whence I at last found it so difficult to dislodge it, 
+hat I was obliged to get a man on the other side with a 
