. L'American natural history ; une base de connaissances utiles de les animaux supérieurs de l'Amérique du Nord. L'histoire naturelle. Grange-AVALER. Bonjour-run'do e-ryth'ro-gaz-tra. dans notre protection qu'elles permettaient à leurs ad- mirers de s'approcher à moins de dix pieds d'eux. La femelle de cette espèce est largement différent en couleur à partir de l'homme, d'avoir le dessus, vert-olive terne et de couleur vert-jaune ci-dessous. La famille FINCH ET SPARROW. Fringillidae. Cette famille est large, et il englobe les oiseaux percheurs-becs, avec de forts tels que les roselins, les moineaux, des oiseaux et leurs rela- tives à proximité, et un groupe de gro

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. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. BARN-SWALLOW. Hi-run'do e-ryth'ro-gas-tra. in our protection that they permitted their ad- mirers to approach within ten feet of them. The female of this species is widely different in color from the male, being dull olive-green above and greenish-yellow below. THE FINCH AND SPARROW FAMILY. Fringillidae. This Family is a large one, and it embraces the perching-birds with strong beaks, such as the finches, sparrows, snow-birds and their near rela- tives, and one group of grosbeaks. By their beaks you shall know them, —short, and wide at the base, like the jaws of a pair of pliers. They are made for cracking all seeds which the owner does not wish to swallow entire. The American Cross-bill' is a dull-red bird with brown wings and tail, and its bill is so emphatically crossed it seems like a deformity which must necessarily be fatal to a seed-eater. But Nature has her own odd ways; and it seems that the scissor arrangement of this bird's beak is to promote the husking of pine cones, and the cracking of the seeds. This is a bird of the North, and in the East comes no farther south than a hne drawn from ' Lox'i-a cur-vi-ros'ira minor. Length, 6.50 inches.. Colorado to Washington, D. C. In the West it descends to Arizona, but everyw'here in the United States it is only a winter visitor. With an opera-glass it is always easily recognized by its crossed bill. The American Goldfinch^ is a conspicu- ously yellow bird, though quite small. It is a plump-bodied, fluffy little bird, all sulphur yel- low except a circular black cap atop of its head, and black trimmings on its wings and tail. It is exquisitely pretty, and, like a feathered co- quette, loves to pose on the steep side of a tall muUen stalk, with no leaves about to cut off the admirers' view. It is sociable, also, and loves the garden, orchards and meadows of the self- elected "lord of creati

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