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Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE BROWN LINNET. green linnet. He himself is the largest of them all, and the most robust.His plumage is slightly glossed, the upper part of the head streaked withgreyish brown, and the back of the same colour, only of a redder shade.The feathers of the forehead are red, tipped with brown. He is found at all times of the year, both in England and Scotland ; buttowards the end of autumn the linnets collect into flocks, and visit the farm- A STORY ABOUT A LINNET S NEST. ^43 yards to pick grains, on which they have to hve at this season. They areseen flying in httle flocks, and as they fly utter soft and mellow notes. Theychange their plumage and spruce themselves up once a year.
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THE SKY-LARK, There is a pretty little story about a linnets nest. It was carried homeby some children, and was full of young linnets, that they hoped to rear.The parent birds fluttered round the children all the while they were carryingthe nest home, and never left them. The children put the nest by a window. 144 ^2VRJ£S ABOUT BIRDS, which they left open, that the old birds might get in. The Hnnets, upon this,began to fly backwards and forwards to the nest, and to feed the young. Thenest was then put in a cage, but the parent birds came to it the same asusual, and perched upon it, taking no notice of the people in the room.Everything would have gone on well, but that the cage was left out of doorone night, and the poor little linnets were drowned with the rain. The oldbirds came as usual, and lingered round the house for several days, as ifwondering what had become of their little ones. At last they gave them up,and went away. -^\ i.. i ^•^i H^v^, 1 iii^

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