Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 271
and breast, to golden- 248 A TALK ABOUT CANARIES. [Februaf yellow lower down ; the sides and thighs are dirtywhite ; the top of the head and back brownish-ash, streaked with brown ; the wing-feathers arebrown-black, with pale edges. The color of thefemale is more dingy and indistinct. It builds… … THE WILD CANARY. goldfinch. This is a very different bird, you willnotice, from our larger, clear-yellow cage-bird; yetthe one familiar to us in the United States is per-haps nearer the original form than the majorityof the thirty or forty known varieties of the canarywhich have been produced by…
Children's literature
Internet Archive · UNC Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 271](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/1024/ia-stnicholasserial04dodg-271-168.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial182dodg-288-210.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial272dodg-284-253.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial332dodg-541-714.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial05dodg-639-420.webp)
