The books told me that a hawfinch could exert enough pressure with its beak to squeeze a cherry stone until it popped and surrendered its soft heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

The most curious fact 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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

This and the two following numbers, 26 and 27, are only required for the humming birds; 28 is, however, a good size for the least. 24 will be found a good size for the smaller kinds of warblers and finches up to canaries. 21 is a useful general size for a great number of small birds, and will do for such a bird as the hawfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

It is the call of the nightingale, and the cuckoo, the hawfinch, tree pipit and the lark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The evening Igrosbeak is also called the western evening grosbeak, and the American hawfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3] Reference

Geospiza, from one as large as that of a hawfinch to that of a chaffinch, and even to that of a warbler?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog] Reference

An especially interesting and lovely-to-look-at guest we have had the pleasure of feeding this summer is the hawfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

The eggs are not unlike those of the English hawfinch; the ground colour is pale greenish grey, blotched and spotted with blackish brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

And Mr. Pennant observes that the hoopoe, chatterer, hawfinch, and crossbill, migrate into England so rarely, and at such uncertain times, as not to deserve to be ranked among our birds of passage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

A fine male specimen of the hawfinch, or grosbeak, rather a rare bird in the British Isles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home] Reference

At higher altitudes, one can also see woodpeckers (Picus), finches (Carpodacus), Eurasian hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), white-winged grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes), Himalayan tree creeper (Certhia himalayana), black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros), greenish warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides), cuckoos (Cuculus canorus), nutcrackers (Nucifraga caryocatactes), Stewart’s buntings (Emberiza stewarti).    From Wordnik.com.  [Gissaro-Alai open woodlands] Reference

"Choo Hoo told them that, after many months of wandering, he had at last succeeded in finding the raven; at least he had not seen the raven himself, but the raven had sent a special messenger, the hawfinch, to tell him to be of good cheer, and to return to the wood-pigeons, and to lead them forth against Kapchack, who tottered upon his throne; and that he (the raven) would send the night-jar, or goat-sucker, with crooked and evil counsels to confound Kapchack's wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood Magic A Fable] Reference