. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ables these birds to crack the hardest ker-nels as easily as a Goldfinch shells a grain of hemp seed. Thebill altogether is prodigiously strong; and therefore, to talkof holding it as analogous to that of a Tenuirostral bird, is notcommendable. Not to insist longer upon this manifest ab-surdity, let us consider the Genus Coccothraustes as pre-s
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ables these birds to crack the hardest ker-nels as easily as a Goldfinch shells a grain of hemp seed. Thebill altogether is prodigiously strong; and therefore, to talkof holding it as analogous to that of a Tenuirostral bird, is notcommendable. Not to insist longer upon this manifest ab-surdity, let us consider the Genus Coccothraustes as pre-senting in the form of its bill a most powerful instrument forextracting from the hardest and thickest endocarps the seedswhich afford it nourishment. Only one species occurs in Bri-tain, the Hawfinch, or Haw Grosbeak, Coccothraustes atro-gularis. Several writers have associated with it the Greenfinch,Fringilla Clitoris of authors, but the bill of that bird is notnearly large enough to entitle it to rank with the Hawfinch,the difference being much greater between the bills of thesebirds, than between those of the Siskin and Twite. Aa 2 356 COCCOTHRAUSTES ATROGULARIS. THE BLACK-THROATED GROSBEAK, OR HAWFI^XH. HAWFINCH. COMMON GROSBEAK. GROSBEAK. ^. Loxia Coccothraustes. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 299. Loxia Coccothraustes. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 571. Hawfinch. Mont. Orn. Diet. Le Gros-bec. Fringilla Coccothraustes. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 344. Hawfinch. Coccothraustes vulgaris. Selb. Illustr. I. 324. Fringilla Coccothraustes. Common Grosbeak. Jen. Brit. Yert. An. 136. Male with the head yellovAsh-hrown^ the throat and space beforethe eyes UacJc, the fore part of the bach dark chestnut; four ofthe primary quills emarginate and curved outwards at the ex-tremity. Female with the colours similar but paler^ the quillssimilar. Male.—This beautiful though by no means elegantly formedbird is with us for the most part merely an occasional ^yintervisitant, and therefore little merits the epithets Commo
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