hawfinch

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

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

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

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

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