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BULLFINCH. 
NOPE. POPE. ALP. HOOP. COMMON BULLFINCH. 
Loxia pyrrhvla , Pennant. Montagu. 
Pyrrhula vulgaris , Fi/eming. Selby. 
Loxia. Loxos —Oblique—transverse, (from the shape of the bill in some 
species.) Pyrrhula. Pyrrhulas. —Some bird with red plumage. 
Pyross —Bed. 
This is a strikingly handsome species—an ornament of 
the country. In Europe, it inhabits Russia, Denmark, 
Norway, Sweden, and Germany; in Asia also it occurs, being 
found in Tartary, and in Japan, according to Thunberg and 
Temminck. 
It is met with throughout England, Ireland, and Scotland; 
in Orkney one was shot at Lopness, by Mr. Strang, in 1809. 
In the spring time it is to be seen more frequently in 
gardens and orchards, and may be nearly approached in its 
search there for food. In the winter it meets you in the 
lane, or by the hedgerow in the field. 
A true ‘Bird of the green wood/ the Bullfinch avoids 
the more sterile, or the more highly cultivated districts; for 
here, as in so many other instances, ‘extremes meet/ and the 
absence of timber in our country at least, alike betokens 
the highest and lowest degree of cultivation. It frequents, 
therefore, those where trees abound, being to be seen in the 
depth of the large wood, along the side of the shady grove, 
in the rich orchard, the budding plantation, the trim garden, 
the leafy hedge, and the secluded dell through which some 
little streamlet winds, the gentle trickling of which you 
listen to with complacent pleasure while you saunter along 
the bank in the noon of a summer day. Everywhere his 
rich red colour forms a conspicuous object, so that, like the 
