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The Linnet is included in Professor Ansted's list, but marked by him as only occurring in Guernsey and Sark; and there is a specimen in the Museum. BULLFINCH. Pyrrhula europaea, Vieillot. French, "Bovreuil commun."
Last night at the door Mr. Bullfinch had sounded as if he had considered getting into his house a real crime. Still, Jerry was glad Mr. Bullfinch was not being hard on Andy. "Good-by," said Andy. "Just a minute," said Mr. Bullfinch. "When something is broken it has to be paid for. I think you owe me something for that record, even if you think it was cracked."
So Bullfinch approached the coffee-room door, and melodiously pitching his voice into a bar where two young ladies were keeping the books of the Temeraire, apologetically explained that we wished to order a little dinner in an hour, and that we were debarred from the execution of our inoffensive purpose by consignment to solitude.
A bullfinch was piping lustily in a young tree as she began her task; a blackbird answered from somewhere among the hawthorns with a bewildering series of complicated trills.
Would it be too much of an imposition for me to ask you to keep the parrot over here until Monday?" he asked. "Not at all," said Mr. Martin heartily. "I'm not sure we could trust Bibsy to let the parrot alone. You know how it is with birds and cats, Mr. Bullfinch," said Mrs. Martin. "Say, do you think any cat could get the best of a bird with a beak on him like that?" cried Jerry.
Jenner Weir has mentioned to me a nearly similar case; at Blackheath he never sees or hears the note of the wild bullfinch, yet when one of his caged males has died, a wild one in the course of a few days has generally come and perched near the widowed female, whose call-note is not loud. Mr.
But the words were no sooner spoken, when the wind it died away, and we were becalmed about half a mile from the Bullfinch. "`You'd better go down to breakfast, boys, says our captain, says he, `the breeze won't be long o' comin' again.
Now, go on get us once past the bullfinch, or tell us what it has to do with Clarence Hervey." "That is what I am aiming at, as fast as possible, my lady.
It was not then choked up with buildings, but stood cosy and secluded in its well-stored garden of walnut, mulberry, and apple trees, with the head-stones to the poor fellow's pets the bullfinch and dog Dick, who died the same year as his master; and a very old mulberry tree stricken by lightning, and only held together by the iron braces made by his directions, perhaps applied with his own hands.
In doing so I lighted upon Dicky Chips, as I subsequently christened him: a sturdy little bullfinch, who looked somewhat out of place, and lonesome, amongst his screaming companions from foreign lands.
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