. The American bird fancier; considered with reference to the breeding, rearing, feeding, management, and peculiarities of cage and house birds; with remarks on their diseases and remedies; . five lines long,sharply pointed, and very slightly bent, compressed at thesides, whitish, with a horn-colored tip; the slender feet arebrownish, and six lines high; the front of the head is of abright scarlet red; a broad margin of a similar Color surrounds mm THE GOLDFINCH. 43 the base of the beak; the chin and reins, black; the vertexblack, terminating in a stripe, which passes the back of thehead, and
. The American bird fancier; considered with reference to the breeding, rearing, feeding, management, and peculiarities of cage and house birds; with remarks on their diseases and remedies; . five lines long,sharply pointed, and very slightly bent, compressed at thesides, whitish, with a horn-colored tip; the slender feet arebrownish, and six lines high; the front of the head is of abright scarlet red; a broad margin of a similar Color surrounds mm THE GOLDFINCH. 43 the base of the beak; the chin and reins, black; the vertexblack, terminating in a stripe, which passes the back of thehead, and descends the neck on each side; on the top of theneck, there is a white spot; the cheeks and front of the neck,white; the back of the neck and back are of a beautifulbrown; the rump whitish, with a brownish tinge; the longerfeathers are black; both sides of the breast and the flanks of abright-brown; the middle of the breast, the belly, and thevent, whitish, many of the feathers having a brownish tinge;the thighs, greyish; the pinion feathers, velvet-black, withwhitish tips, which are smallest in old birds, and are sometimeswanting in the first two feathers; the middle of the external. web with a golden-colored stripe an inch long, which, in con-junction with the golden yellow tips of the hinder large coverts,forms a beautiful spot; the coverts otherwise black; the tailslightly forked and black; the two, and sometimes the firstthree pinion feathers having a white spot in the • centre of theinner web; the rest with white tips; sometimes also the thirdis likewise entirely black at the sides. The female is a little smaller, not so broadly and beautifullyred about the beak; the chin brownish ; the cheeks intermixedwith bright-brown; the small coverts of the wings, brown, andthe back of a deeper dark-brown. BKEEDIWG. The female goldfinch rarely lays more than once a-year,(consequently these birds do not greatly multiply,) and then f 44 THE GOLDFINCH. from four to six eggs, which u
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