. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . ust be content with assuring you,that the notes of the two birds are as nearly the same, and yet as distinct, asthose of the American Gold-finch and the European bird of the same name. Removing from one spot to another with the peculiar activity and capri-ciousness of the Linnet family, they would fly from one portion to anotherof the wild natural meadow on which I watched them nearly an hour beforeI shot them, alight here and there, peck at the berries a few moments, andsuddenly, as if affrighted, rise, p
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . ust be content with assuring you,that the notes of the two birds are as nearly the same, and yet as distinct, asthose of the American Gold-finch and the European bird of the same name. Removing from one spot to another with the peculiar activity and capri-ciousness of the Linnet family, they would fly from one portion to anotherof the wild natural meadow on which I watched them nearly an hour beforeI shot them, alight here and there, peck at the berries a few moments, andsuddenly, as if affrighted, rise, perform various wide and circling flights, indeep undulations, and at once alighting repose for a short while. Like Titmice, and often with downward inclined head, they fed, chatteredto each other, and then resting for an instant plumed themselves. Theseoccupations they would have continued much longer had not the trigger ofmy gun been touched at a favourable moment, on which I walked to thespot and picked up the little flock, all of them having been killed at oneshot. JS?3(5. PL
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