. British birds for cages and aviaries; a hanbook relating to all British birds which may be kept in confinement .. . steel black; the secondaries, of the samecolour, have square ends; the under parts are pale buff,and the tail greyish-white, except at the base, where thefeathers are black; the legs and feet are greyishflesh-colour. The female is rather smaller and paler in colourthan the male, whom she otherwise resembles. These birds feed on seeds and berries, and will live fora number of years in the house. The nest is a compact structure of grass-stems andmoss, placed on the branch of a tr
. British birds for cages and aviaries; a hanbook relating to all British birds which may be kept in confinement .. . steel black; the secondaries, of the samecolour, have square ends; the under parts are pale buff,and the tail greyish-white, except at the base, where thefeathers are black; the legs and feet are greyishflesh-colour. The female is rather smaller and paler in colourthan the male, whom she otherwise resembles. These birds feed on seeds and berries, and will live fora number of years in the house. The nest is a compact structure of grass-stems andmoss, placed on the branch of a tree, generally in acleft between two boughs ; and the eggs are four or fivein number, of a greenish-grey colour, streaked andspeckled with brown and bluish-black. The youngare easily reared on bread and milk and soaked seed,crushed to free it from the husk, and will then becomevery tame. Ihe Hawfinch has not much natural song, but when 78 BRITISH BIRDS reared from the nest, will learn the notes of other birdsto a certain extent, though never as perfectly as aBullfinch, if better than a Greenfinch. It mav also be. The Hawfinch. trained to come and go, and rarely abandons its homeand the comforts connected therewith. It is a winter visitor, but some couples remain tobreed during the summer, and more would, no doubt,do so, if they were not so systematically persecuted asthey are. FOR CAGES AND AVIARIES. 79 The Linnets. See under Mountain Finch. See Pine Grosbeak. See pag. Redpolls. See under Linnets. The Serin Finch. This is a rare winter visitor, coming to us now andthen in twos and threes from the same quarters as theSiskin, the female of which it greatly resembles, but ismore mottled on the breast. A few are taken every season, but the bird is littleknown, except to the initiated. It must be fed and treatedlike the Siskin, and will breed with it, producing a mulethat is larger than either of its parents (probably owing tothe abundant supply of no
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