. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE CARDINAL GROSBEAK. :jy7 to another. Still, its musical powers are siifRciently marked to earn for the bird the title of Virginian Nightingale, and it is a curioiis fact that the female often sings nearly as well as her mate. This bird seems to be of a very tender-hearted disposition, and given to the adoption of other birds when young and helpless. Wilson mentions that he placed a young cow bird in. CARDINAL OROSB£AK and HAWFINCH.—Cu/c^J/tu^M viryiniaauiawX LuMvUuawsUs valgarus. the
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE CARDINAL GROSBEAK. :jy7 to another. Still, its musical powers are siifRciently marked to earn for the bird the title of Virginian Nightingale, and it is a curioiis fact that the female often sings nearly as well as her mate. This bird seems to be of a very tender-hearted disposition, and given to the adoption of other birds when young and helpless. Wilson mentions that he placed a young cow bird in. CARDINAL OROSB£AK and HAWFINCH.—Cu/c^J/tu^M viryiniaauiawX LuMvUuawsUs valgarus. the same cage with a Cardinal Grosbeak, which the latter immediately adopted, and reared the poor, helpless little creature that had appealed so suddenly to its compassionate feelings. Mr. AYehber, moreover, in his account of the Birds of America, gives an anecdote of a Scarlet Grosbeak belonging to an old woman in Washington City, which used to make a regular busi- ness of rearing the young of other birds which were i^laced under his charge, and thereby learning a considerable sum of money in the course of a season. She had often been offered a high price for her bird, but always refused to sell him, impelled either by hope of gain or by love of the bird ; we may liope that the latter feeling predominated. lu its native land tlie Cardinal Grosbeak is most common in the Southern States, and in some localities is migratory, while in others it remains throughout the year. "Li the Northern States," says Wilson, " they are migratory, but in the lower parts of Pennsylvania they reside during the whole year, frequenting the borders of creeks and rivulets, in sheltered hollows covered with holly, laurel, and other evergreens. They love also to reside in the vicinity of fields of Indian corn, a grain that contributes their chief and favorite food. The seeds of apples, cherries, and of many other sorts of fruit are also eaten by them, and they are accused of destroying bee
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