The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 661
be sought inNorway, Sweden, and Eussia, where it is extremely abundant;and in the far North it takes the place of the chaffinch entirely. The Greenfinch (F. chloris) is another very common species,and its loose nest is frequently placed in the thick ivy whichtwines round the trunks of trees, as… … \ THE CHAFFINCH. but as a rule the first nests, constructed in April, are the mostbeautiful and ornate. The eggs, four or five in number, are ofa bluish-green, blotched with reddish, overlaid with spots andstreaks of darker colour, often in the shape of an incompletezone; and nearly uniform blue…
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