. An illustrated manual of British birds . lt male has the lores dusky black; forehead greenish-yellow ; a golden-yellow stripe over each eye; crown, neck andmantle olive-green, turning to yellow on the rump; secondariesbrownish-grey, darker on the shafts and inner margins ; quills greyish-brown with yellow outer webs; central tail-feathers and terminalportion of the rest blackish-brown with greyish edges, the basalportions yellow ; under parts greenish-yellow, greyer on the flanks;bill dull flesh-colcur, darkest at the tip; legs and feet pale wood-brown. Length of the large form about 6 in.,
. An illustrated manual of British birds . lt male has the lores dusky black; forehead greenish-yellow ; a golden-yellow stripe over each eye; crown, neck andmantle olive-green, turning to yellow on the rump; secondariesbrownish-grey, darker on the shafts and inner margins ; quills greyish-brown with yellow outer webs; central tail-feathers and terminalportion of the rest blackish-brown with greyish edges, the basalportions yellow ; under parts greenish-yellow, greyer on the flanks;bill dull flesh-colcur, darkest at the tip; legs and feet pale wood-brown. Length of the large form about 6 in., and wing 3-5 in.;but a brilliant specimen of the smaller race, now before me, measuresrather less than 5 in. and the wing barely 32 in. The female issomewhat smaller and far less brightly coloured than the male, thehead and mantle being greenish-brown with darker striations, andthe under parts generally dusky, with very little yellow. The youngare dull brown, tinged with yellow, and spotted and streaked withdarker brown. , 163. THE HAWFINCH. COCCOTHRAUSTES VULGARIS, PallaS. The Hawfinch is a bird of shy and retiring habits, and unless at-tention be attracted to it by the shrill and—when once heard—un-mistakable whistle, its presence may easily escape detection. Therecan be no doubt that its numbers have been steadily increasing duringthe last fifty years ; and, though its distribution is local, its nest hasperhaps been found in every county in England, excepting Corn-wall, as far north as the Lake district, where the bird becomes Wales its visits—even to Brecon—are exceptional, although itbreeds sparingly in Herefordshire. In spite of the extension of themetropolis, the Hawfinch is not yet banished as a breeding-speciesfrom the county of Middlesex, and it is comparatively common inEssex, Herts, fiucks, Berks and Surrey, while in some portions ofKent it may almost be called abundant. In Scotland it has beenobtained accidentally in winter, both in the
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