. British birds in their haunts. Birds. 200 FRINGILLID^. tinent of Europe, and not nnfrequently in enormous flocks. Pennant mentions an instance in which eighteen were killed at one shot—a statement which I can well believe, having seen in the winter of 1853 by far the largest flock of small birds I ever beheld, and which was composed entirely of Bramblings. They were employed in search- ing for food on the ground in a beech wood, and, as I approached, flew up into the branches in thousands. The. THE BRAMBLliSC Brambling, called also the Bramble Finch and Mountain Finch, resembles the Chaffinc
. British birds in their haunts. Birds. 200 FRINGILLID^. tinent of Europe, and not nnfrequently in enormous flocks. Pennant mentions an instance in which eighteen were killed at one shot—a statement which I can well believe, having seen in the winter of 1853 by far the largest flock of small birds I ever beheld, and which was composed entirely of Bramblings. They were employed in search- ing for food on the ground in a beech wood, and, as I approached, flew up into the branches in thousands. The. THE BRAMBLliSC Brambling, called also the Bramble Finch and Mountain Finch, resembles the Chaffinch in habits, size, and general tone of colour; and as it often feeds in company with it, is probably sometimes confounded with it by an inex- perienced eye. It arrives in this country in iJ^ovember, and takes its departure early in spring, never having been known to breed here. Its song is said to be something like that of the Chaffinch, and its nest, built in fir-trees, to be constructed with the same marvellous Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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