. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . nd winter roosting-resorts,and in our youthful nocturnal bird-catching ex-cursions was the species which suffered most fre-quently amongst the laurels, box, laurustinus, & the Northamptonshire gardens and species appears to pair early. We have oftenfound nests containing eggs in the first week inApril, and three, if not four, broods are often male bird has a habit of floating in the air,singing his best during the pairing-season, but hisbest is, to our ears, a poor performance, and hisordinary ditty te
. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . nd winter roosting-resorts,and in our youthful nocturnal bird-catching ex-cursions was the species which suffered most fre-quently amongst the laurels, box, laurustinus, & the Northamptonshire gardens and species appears to pair early. We have oftenfound nests containing eggs in the first week inApril, and three, if not four, broods are often male bird has a habit of floating in the air,singing his best during the pairing-season, but hisbest is, to our ears, a poor performance, and hisordinary ditty tedious and monotonous to a think that five is about the average complement ofeggs, but have several times met with six. In thewinter months the Greenfinch resorts to the hedgesand stubbles in company with other allied species,and may often be found about the stackyards, butgenerally returns to the favourite evergreens atnightfall. This bird is common in most parts ofSouthern Europe and in Algeria, in which last 190 THE BIRDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. ^ Grreenfinclaes, with nest and younj AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 191 country a very brilliantly coloured race or variety,which has been raised to the rank of a distinctspecies by some ornithologists under the name ofFringilla aurantiiventris, is equally abundant. Thisbird presents no difference in notes, habits, orstructure from the ordinary European type, and isonly distinguishable by the vivid intensity of itsplumage. 84. GOLDFINCH. CardueUs elegans. This beautiful little bird, though said to be lesscommon with us than it was before the practice ofcareful field-weeding became general, is, I am glad tosay, still well known, and by no means rare in mostparts of our county as a resident species, whosenumbers are increased in most winters by flocks ofstrangers,—I mean birds not bred in our Goldfinch is so justly a favourite, from itscheerful song and beauty, that it is perhaps thebird which suffers more than any other from
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