Identifier: cu31924022566420 (find matches)
Title: The British bird book
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Wood, Theodore, 1862- Pycraft, W. P., (William Plane), b. 1868 Green, Roland, 1895-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a most pertina-cious bird, and has very Uttle idea of beingdriven away. If a flock of greenfinches are disturbed whUefeeding, they merely wing their way to another part ofthe same field, and settle down again. If they are drivenoff once more, they make for the nearest trees, and waitthere until the intruder has gone away. And as, in winter-time, they congregate together in large numbers, they cando a good deal of mischief in a very short time. The members of these large flocks appear to beimmigrants, which come to our shores from more northerncountries in early autumn, and leave again in the spring ; forsmaller parties, often mingled with sparrows and chaffinches,may be seen in gardens and fields in undiminished numbers.It is a somewhat curious fact that thesewinter visitors are distinctly more brightlycoloured than those which remain with usthroughout the year. The Greenfinch builds, as a rule, inhedges, or in thick bushes in shrubberies.The nest, which is seldom finished until May86
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1. Nightjar, Head and Foot (ib)I a. ,, Toothed Claw 2. Cuckoo, Head2a. ,, Foot 3. Rook 4. Jay 5. Magpie

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