. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . margin towards the end; the primaries rounded, thesecondaries emarginate. Tail shortish, emarginate, the lateralfeathers slightly bent outwards. The genus Carduelis is very intimately allied to the preced-ing, the principal dilFerence being in its having the bill moreslender and elongated. The species are all small, and gene-rally of lively col
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . margin towards the end; the primaries rounded, thesecondaries emarginate. Tail shortish, emarginate, the lateralfeathers slightly bent outwards. The genus Carduelis is very intimately allied to the preced-ing, the principal dilFerence being in its having the bill moreslender and elongated. The species are all small, and gene-rally of lively colours, the wings marked with yellow. Theyare extensively distributed, and some occur on both they occasionally descend to the ground, they usuallyseek their food on trees or tall herbaceous plants, of which,especially the Amentacese and Compositae, they pick the Britain two species occur ; the Red-fronted Thistlefinch orGoldfinch, C. elegans^ and the Siskin, C. sjnnus ; both per-manent residents, but the latter appearing irregularly in flocksduring autumn and winter, although breeding in Scotland. 393 CARDUELIS ELEGANS. THE RED-FRONTEDTHISTLEFINCH, OR GOLDFINCH. GOLDFINCH. GOLDSPINK. GOUDSPINK. GOLDIE.
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