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Hawfinch

noun
1.
A common large finch of Eurasia.  Synonym: Coccothraustes coccothraustes.





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... is the perfect gradation in the size of the beaks in the different species of Geospiza, from one as large as that of a hawfinch to that of a chaffinch, and (if Mr. Gould is right in including his sub-group, Certhidea, in the main group) even to that of a warbler. The largest beak in the genus Geospiza is shown in (Plate 81) Figure 1, and the smallest in Figure ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Hawfinch" :   grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes, grossbeak, Coccothraustes, genus Coccothraustes


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