. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. THE GRA88 FINCH. 303 Tlio malo, during tlio mating and the early part of the brooding season, has a very sweet and pretty song wliieli Iio chants most often at m
. Ornithology and oölogy of New England [microform] : containing full descriptions of the birds of New England and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature : together with a complete history of their habits, times of arrival and departure ... : with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. THE GRA88 FINCH. 303 Tlio malo, during tlio mating and the early part of the brooding season, has a very sweet and pretty song wliieli Iio chants most often at morning and early evening, and during dark and cloudy vvciatluM". This song is difHcult of description: it resembles nearly the syllables 'cheivi^e 'ehewltt 'cImvUt 'chrwltf, 'cheivcrt 'chewde, uttered slowly and plaintively. It has also a short chirp' quite faint, yet shrill, which, as Mr. Nuttall truly remarks, almost exactly resembles the chirping of a cricket. About the first week in ()et()l)er, this species gathers in small, detached ilocks; and, after fre(pienting the stubble- lields and gardens a week or two, the whole leave for the South. , IJAiiin. Hill rnthcr Inr^c; uppor outline slif;l,tly dwurvcl tnwnnis tlic , lower straiKlit • coniniisHure ; tarsus nl)out to tliu ,lie toe; outer toe n little lotijrer the inner, itn ilaw to tlio ! of tiie middle elaw; hind too renehinfj to the of the middle elaw; win-H unusually lonj; reachiuK to (he of the tail, as far as the eoverts, and pointed, the primarieH . loii-er than the secondaries, which are not much surpassed by the lertianes; seeoiul an<l third (|uills longest; first little shorter, about equal to the fourth, shorter than the tail; the outer feathers scarcely sluuter; the feathers rather stitr, each one acuminate and sharply ; the fathers broad marlv to the end, wlu^n they are truncate; stre
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