. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. â¢â xi XAIUMAL tree, which is the situation usually selected for it ; but it is found in a great variety of places, often on tall trees, sometimes in the fork of a shrub, not unfrequently among ivy on a wall, and still more commonly among the twigs of a hawthorn hedge. Gardens, orchards, hedges, groves, copses, and woods are all inhabited by the Chaffinches at this season, but they are very rarely met with in the depth of large woods, especially of those composed of tir. Wlien a person approaches the uest, the birds manifest much
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. â¢â xi XAIUMAL tree, which is the situation usually selected for it ; but it is found in a great variety of places, often on tall trees, sometimes in the fork of a shrub, not unfrequently among ivy on a wall, and still more commonly among the twigs of a hawthorn hedge. Gardens, orchards, hedges, groves, copses, and woods are all inhabited by the Chaffinches at this season, but they are very rarely met with in the depth of large woods, especially of those composed of tir. Wlien a person approaches the uest, the birds manifest much anxiety, flying about, or hopping among the twigs, and rejieating theii. ordinary tweet in a hurried manner. The female sits very close, and from her colour and that of the nest is seldom perceived, but when aware that she has been discovered, she slips off with alacrity, and joins the male in evincing her anxiety as to the result of the ; The nesting of the Bullfinch is as follows:âAbout the beginning of May it begins to construct its nest, which is rather loosely formed of small dry twigs, with a lining of fibrous I'oots, and is jilaced in a bush, frequently of hawthorn, or on the horizontal branch of a spruce. The eggs, four in number, are of a rather broad oval form, nine and a half twelfths long, seven and a half twelfths in their greatest diameter, of a bluish or jnirplish white colour, spotted and streaked with purplish-grey and reddish-brown. The second section contains tJie Finches with narrow palates (J ;-c<yW««afc«), which have the finch-like character of the lower mandible less strongly pronoimced, the palate being Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State Univers
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