HAWFINCH.
GROSBEAK. COMMON GROSBEAK. III. \CK-TH BOATED GROSBEAK.
II \w GROSBEAK.
Coccothraustes vulgaris, FLEMING. Gould.
Loxia coccothraustes, Linkxus. LATHAM.
Fringilla coccothraustes, Tenths. TBMUZNCK.
Coccothraustes. Coccos—A berry. Throw—To break. Vulgaris—Common.
'I'm B Hawfinch occurs throughout Europe, in Germany, France,
Belgium, Spain, and Italy, as likewise, though more rarely, in Sweden,
Denmark, and Russia. In Asia also, in Siberia, and Japan, according
to Tentniiuck. who includes it among the birds of that great island;
and in Africa, in Egypt, where Sonnini relates that he saw it.
In Yorkshire, specimens have been met with near Sheffield, Killmbeck,
near Leeds, Scriven, near Knaresboroughj Halifax, York,
11 uddei siield. the grounds of Cannon llall, and at Ilovland, near
Barnsley, and at Wentworth, near Botherham, and in the neighbourhood
of Doncaster, in the West-Biding, where eight were killed in
184S; and a few generally obtained every winter near Bridlington, in
the East-Riding.
One was shot in the vicarage garden of Coddenham, Suffolk, about
the middle of January, 1850; so John Longe, Esq. has informed me.
In 1849, the Bev. B. 1'. Alington shot one in his garden at Swmhope
Rectory, Lincolnshire, and heard of several others in the same
neighbourhood. He says of the one that he procured, 'It came to feed
on the gravel walk: upon my appearance, it would fly to the topmost
branch of a neighbouring tree, and before I could get within
gun-shot, would fall like a stone among the laurel bushes, from whence
I at last found it so difficult to dislodge it, that I was obliged to
get a man on the other side with a stick to drive it out.' Two or
three have been shot at Notting Hill, near London; one near Esher,
Surrey. N. Rowe. Esq.. of \\ orcester College, Oxford, says that he has