hawfinch

Historical Examples

• It altogether sounds as though it might have been a hawfinch.

  In a Cheshire Garden

  Geoffrey Egerton-Warburton

• If so, we might look them over for a Hawfinch's nest about May 10th.

  Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.

  J.G. Millais

• Old man Tyler could lay his Hawfinch half a point nearer the wind than a chap has a right to expect from an archbishop.

  Where the Pavement Ends

  John Russell

• Sims describes the Hawfinch's immobile upper jaw, which is used as a powerful press in cracking the stones of fresh fruit.

  Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves

  Robert L. Merz

• Occasionally that shy bird, the hawfinch, is seen on a wet, quiet day picking up white-beam kernels and seeds.

  The Naturalist on the Thames

  C. J. Cornish