Sketches of Bird Life From Twenty Years Observation of Their Haunts Habits
Sketches of Bird Life From Twenty Years Observation of Their Haunts Habits
James Edmund Harting
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A nearer inspection reveals the fact that the edges of the mandibles, instead of being plain, are inflected and slightly indented, the gape also being arched instead of straight. These little peculiarities of structure are not unaccompanied by eccentricities of habit, which it is one of the chief pastimes of the ornithologist to note. To see the Greenfinch one has no need to go far from. Town. It is one of the commonest hedge- row birds we have, frequenting gardens, orchards, farm-yards, and cu...ltivated fields, and generally in company with Sparrows and other small birds, except during the nesting season, when it keeps very much to itself, the cock bird singing from some low spray while the hen is busy with her nest. An orchard is a very favourite resort in summer, doubt- less because the fruit trees furnish some specially attractive food in the shape of caterpillars and aphides, upon which it feeds its young. For, like many other hard-billed birds which live on seeds and grain during nine months of the year, the 154 SKETCHES OF BIRD LIFE.
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