. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . ape gray; throat and small patch about the eyeblack; breast vinous-brown; wings black, with boldwhite patch; central feathers of tail brown; othersblackish, with white tips; bill conical and extra-ordinarily massive. Resident. Eggs.—4—6, pale green or buff, streaked with grayand spotted sparingly with blackiah-brown; lOx7inch (plate 125). Nest.—Of twigs and lichens, lined with fine rootsand hair, and placed from a few feet to thirty feetabove the ground, in old thorn-bushes, apple andpear trees, or on the horizontal branches
. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . ape gray; throat and small patch about the eyeblack; breast vinous-brown; wings black, with boldwhite patch; central feathers of tail brown; othersblackish, with white tips; bill conical and extra-ordinarily massive. Resident. Eggs.—4—6, pale green or buff, streaked with grayand spotted sparingly with blackiah-brown; lOx7inch (plate 125). Nest.—Of twigs and lichens, lined with fine rootsand hair, and placed from a few feet to thirty feetabove the ground, in old thorn-bushes, apple andpear trees, or on the horizontal branches of oaks,beeches, and firs. Distribution.—Fairly common in south-easternEngland, rarer northwards, absent from Cornwall;rare in Wales save in Brecon; practically unknownin Scotland and Ireland. The Hawfinch is a bull-necked, stout-billed bird,and because of its wary habits harder to see than torecognise. There is none of the smaller perchingbirds with so powerful a structure as the bill of theHawfinch, used, as it is, to break open fruit-stones in Plate LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. Plate 45.
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