Une description du Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), un petit oiseau passereau au plumage brillant. Le mâle Goldfinch a un corps jaune distinctif avec des ailes noires et un visage rouge. Le Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) est également décrit, avec son dos de châtaignier et sa tête grise, tous deux communs en Europe.
1671 x 1496 px | 28,3 x 25,3 cm | 11,1 x 10 inches | 150dpi
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. The popular natural history . Zoology. 342 THE GOLDFINCH.. CHAFFINCH.—(Fringilla ccelebs.) is found on the wings and the greater wing-coverts. The top of the head and back of the neck are slaty grey, the back is chestnut, and the sides of the head, the chin, throat, and breast are bright ruddy chestnut, fading into a colder tint upon the abdomen. I'he larger wing-coverts are tipped with white, the lesser coverts are entirely of the same hue, and the tertials are edged with yellowish white. The tail has the two central feathers greyish black, the next three pairs black, and the remaining feathers variegated with black and white. The total length of the bird is six inches. The female is coloured something like the male, but not so brilliantly. Of all the British Finches, none if so truly handsome as the Goldfinch, a bird whose bright yellow-orange hues suffer but little even when it is placed in close proximity to the more gaudy Finches of tropical climates. Like the chaffinch, it is spread over the whole of England, and may be seen in great numbers feeding on the white thistledown. There are few prettier sights than to watch a cloud of Goldfinches fluttering along a hedge, chasing the thistledown as it is whirled away by the breeze, and uttering all the while their sweet merry notes. The birds are not very shy, and by lying quietly in the hedge the observer may watch them as they come flying along, ever and anon perching upon the thistle tops, dragging out a beakful of down, and biting off the seeds with infinite satisfaction. Sometimes a Goldfinch will make a dart at a thistle or burdock, and without perching snatch several of the seeds from their bed, and then alighting on the stem, will run up it as nimbly as a squirrel, and peck away at the seeds, quite careless as to the attitude it may be forced to adopt. These beautiful little birds are most useful to the farmer, for they not only devour multitudes of insects during the spring months, but in the autumn the
