Identifier: wisconsinbirdstu1906mitc (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin bird-study bulletin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, I. N Mitchell, I. N., Mrs Barnett, Maud
Subjects: Birds Bird watching
Publisher: Madison : C.P. Cary, State Superintendent
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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92 /wvijc.Kic.^i^ GOLDFINCH. 529. Spinus tristis. (Linn.) % Life-size, WISCONSIN BIRD-STUDY BULLETIN. 1) AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, THISTLE BIRD. Resident; length about five incites; sexes unlike; nest a tliichwalled, compact, ivell made cup, outside of fine grasses, fibres of hark,wool and moss, inside thickly lined with thistle-down, wool and cot-ton; eggs three to six. This is the yellow bird that so many people in Wisconsin call thewild canary.* The resemblance between our wild finch and the cul-tivated immigrant from the Canary Islands is so striking, sometimes,both in color and voice, that the name seems almost justified. Let usbe patriotic, however, and claim our own bird as the American gold-finch. How well the name suggests his clear, beautiful, yellow bodycolor. This, mth his black crown, wings and tail make the male birdan easy one to know. The female, though dressed in the same generalcolors, is much harder to identify. The yellow is darkened to abrownish olive, and the black of

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