The Brambline. gI 
but the same in length. Eggs dirty white, spotted and 
streaked with deep red. | 
This is a bird that spends its summer months in 
northern countries. But as winter appears, we have 
a good chance of watching it, as these birds are at this 
time of the year very numerous, and particularly fond 
of beech-nuts, on which they feed in company with the 
chaffinch, some of the different kinds of titmice, the 
nuthatch, and the wood pigeon. I have seen one and 
twenty shot by the firing of one gun, besides other 
birds falling with them from the same shot, and when 
the flock rose, I might say with truth there seemed to 
be thousands, and I believe there were. This bird is as 
well known, perhaps, by the name of Mountain Finch as 
by the name of Brambling. In its habits it resembles 
the chaffinch, and perhaps might pass for such in a 
flock of birds to an inexperienced eye; but when on 
the wing, flying from the ground with these birds, it 
can be easily told, as the white on the rump gives the 
appearance of asmall piece of paper shooting through 
the air with a rapid motion. It arrives here about 
November, taking its departure early in spring. Its 
song is said to be like that of the chaffinch. Its call-note 
I have heard, but I never remember hearing its proper 
