. British birds for cages and aviaries; a hanbook relating to all British birds which may be kept in confinement .. . s ofthem die miserably every year from indigestion at alonger or shorter (but never long) interval, after passingfrom the custody of the dealers, some of whom havewritten to various papers denying the deplorable mortality:nevertheless, it is unhappily only too certain. The sexes of the Goldfinch can be distinguished, as a rule, by the darkercolour of the smallwing-coverts, whichare browner in thefemale than in themale; in a full-grownadult of the latter sexthey are jet black,bu
. British birds for cages and aviaries; a hanbook relating to all British birds which may be kept in confinement .. . s ofthem die miserably every year from indigestion at alonger or shorter (but never long) interval, after passingfrom the custody of the dealers, some of whom havewritten to various papers denying the deplorable mortality:nevertheless, it is unhappily only too certain. The sexes of the Goldfinch can be distinguished, as a rule, by the darkercolour of the smallwing-coverts, whichare browner in thefemale than in themale; in a full-grownadult of the latter sexthey are jet black,but in the females arefringed with the case of youngbirds, even whenthey have put off theimmature or nestlingGreypate attire,the disdnction is notso marked, but thecocks are alwaysdarker than the hens:the yellow tinge ofthe breast and the extent and depth of the colour ofthe blaze are often pointed to as differentiating signsof sex, but are not more infallible dian that of the shoulderfeathers. The nest of the Goldfinch is often built in an orchard,Visually among the terminal twigs of an apple- or cherry-. The Goldfinch. FOR CAGES AND A VIARIES. 71 tree, and is very neatly and compactly put together: theyare suspicious, however, and often begin a number ofnests, before finally deciding on a site; but once they havesettled down, they are extremely attentive to their domesticduties. They have been bred in cage and aviary withincreasing frequency of late, and if their pursuit iscarried out as it has been in the past, it is much tobe feared that in no other way can the extermination ofthe race, at least in this country, be prevented, or ratherpostponed. The Goldfinch breeds freely in confinement with otherbirds, the most popular cross being with the Canary,and the next with the Bullfinch: other crosses have been,tried, as with the Linnet, Redpoll, Siskin, Greenfinch andTwite; but the reported cross with the Chafiinch andBrambling is either the result of mistaken identity or
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