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Identifier: handbookofbirds00bail (find matches)
Title: Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds -- West (U.S.)
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Transition and Upper Sonoran zones from thesouthern British Provinces south to Kentucky and Kansas, east of theRocky Mountains ; winters south to the Gulf of Mexico. Nest. —A neat cup-shaped structure of compactly woven plant fibers,lined with down and other soft materials; placed in tall bushes or lowtrees. Eggs: 3 to 5, plain pale bluish or bluish white. Food. — Largely weed seed. The goldfinches, or wild canaries, as they are popularly called intheir many forms, if not as cultivated songsters as their caged rela-tives, have much sweeter call-notes and a happy round of their own.Their indolent lisping notes have a tinge of sadness, but as theyraise their heads from a thistle or sunflower to give them, and thenflit lightly off and go sauntering in undulating flight through theair the gentle-spirited birds seem as light-hearted as butterflies. In their home life they are among the most charming of birds,being tender, devoted mates and watchful parents. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 321
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Fii,. 405. GoUitiiK-li. 529a. A. t. pallidus (yfeanis). Palk Goldfinch. Afhill male in sininner. — Similar to tristis. hut larg-er and paler, whiteTiiarkiii<,-s of wiiios and tail more extended. Aihdt male in winter: mnchlighter than tristis, with tints pnrer and white more extended. Male:lenfjth (skins) 4.;;.71-i..»2, tail 1.70--J.O;3, bill .:\9-.44. Remarks. — Hie principal difference between pallidus and tristris is inwinter i)luniage. Distrilintion. — Rocky Mountain jdateaii district from British Columbiaand Manitohii south to northern and eastern Mexico. 529b. A. t. salicamans (Grinn.). Willow Goldfinch. Adult male in summer. — Except for sliorter wings and tail .scarcelydistinguishable from tristis; black cap, if anything, not so extended and

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