. Il bird fancier americano; considerato con riferimento all'allevamento, all'alimentazione, alla gestione e alle peculiarità degli uccelli domestici e a gabbia; con osservazioni sulle loro malattie e rimedi; tratto da fonti autentiche e osservazione personale. Ng,appuntito, e molto leggermente piegato, compresso a thesides, biancastro, con punta corna; I piedi snelli arebreunish, e sei linee alte; la parte anteriore della testa è di AA rosso scarlatto luminoso; un ampio margine di un colore simile circonda mm ^ nzjP ^ Y IL GOLDFINCH. 43 la base del becco, il mento e le redini, neri, i verteneri, terminati
2037 x 1227 px | 34,5 x 20,8 cm | 13,6 x 8,2 inches | 150dpi
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. The American bird fancier; considered with reference to the breeding, rearing, feeding, management, and peculiarities of cage and house birds; with remarks on their diseases and remedies; drawn from authentic sources and personal observation . ng, sharply pointed, and very slightly bent, compressed at thesides, whitish, with a horn-colored tip; the slender feet arebrownish, and six lines high; the front of the head is of aA bright scarlet red; a broad margin of a similar color surrounds mm ^ nzjP ^ Y THE GOLDFINCH. 43 the base of the beak; the chin and reins, black; the vertexblack, terminating in a stripe, which passes the back of thehead, and descends the neck on each side; on the top of theneck, there is a white spot; the cheeks and front of the neck, white; the back of the neck and back are of a beautifulbrown; the rump whitish, with a brownish tinge; the longerfeathers are black; both sides of the breast and the flanks of abright-brown; the middle of the breast, the belly, and thevent, whitish, many of the feathers having a brownish tinge;the thighs, greyish; the pinion feathers, velvet-black, withwhitish tips, which are smallest in old birds, and are sometimeswanting in the first two feathers; the middle of the external. THE GOLDFINCH. web with a golden-colored stripe an inch long, which, in con-/ junction with the golden yellow tips of the hinder large coverts, forms a beautiful spot; the coverts otherwise black; the tailslightly forked and black; the two, and sometimes the firstthree pinion feathers having a white , ?^ot in the centre of theinner web; the rest with white tips^ ^Dmetimes also the thirdis likewise entirely black at the sides. The female is a little smaller, not so broadly and beautifullyred about the beak; the chin brownish ; the cheeks intermixedwith bright-brown; the small coverts of the wings, brown, andthe back of a deeper dark-brown. BREEDING. The female goldfinch rarely lays more than once a-year, (consequently these birds do not greatly mu
