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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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d so the young birds are soonleft to shift for themselves. In the picture you see another kind of sparrow, called the tree sparrow.It is smaller than the house sparrow, and not so common in England, thoughit is plentiful enough abroad. THE BROWN LINNET. Ihe linnet belongs to the family of the finches. He has the same roundhead and strong short bill, and the same love for picking up seeds and grain.He is no great musician, but he has a pleasant little song of his own, that hepours forth from some twig of furze on the mountain side, while his mate isbrooding over her young. His nest is in some bush of heath, and is very neat and pretty, and is 142 STORIES ABOUT BIJiDS. made of grass and moss and wool, and lined with hair. He is very fondof the hilly parts of the country, where there are thickets of broom andheather. And he delights in the wild and craggy glens, where he can rearhis brood away from the haunts of man. He has three relations—the mountain linnet, and the red pole, and the
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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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