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Besides these, doves and pigeons, both wild and tame, are common; as are swallows, goldfinches, sparrows, larks, blackbirds, thrushes, linnets, magpies, crows, hawks, falcons, teal, snipe, wild ducks, and many other kinds of waterfowl. Besides these, there is a small gray partridge in the Zagros range, which the Kurds call seslca.
Small as was the apple-tree dweller, she had managed, before I knew her, to establish her claim to her own vicinity. Goldfinches and yellow warblers, vireos and robins, were about; I heard them on all sides, but not one intruded upon her tree or the neighboring sides of the maples. As the young progressed and waxed bumptious, she became more and more cautious.
In the middle of the room, and near the open door, was a table, on which stood a large wicker cage containing several nests of young goldfinches, and with green food twined among the osiers. There were, too, a large wine-jar and an ivory goblet decorated with fine carving.
"The sparrows got nothing; and the goldfinches, who got 'your all, grumble because you gave so little," said Peter, sadly. "That is what comes of interfering with the laws of Nature." And then, as the two birds flew away, "See the dark, doubtful, reproachful glances with which they cover you." "You think they are ungrateful?" she said. "No listen." She held up a finger.
She turned to Peter with a look of respectful enquiry, as one appealing to an authority for information. "Oh, they snatch from each other, during the winter," he explained. "It is thief rob thief, when honest victims are not forthcoming. And what is more to the point they must keep their beaks in, against the return of the goldfinches with the spring."
Why, really, sir, said Shaw, on the receipt of the gold, this were a handsome compliment from another person, but methinks you might have spared a little more out of the long bag you brought from the gaming table. Come, gentlemen, get out, get out, we must examine the nest a little, I fancy the goldfinches are not yet flown.
These goldfinches, for a case in point, can sing and they have your sympathy. The sparrows can only make a horrid noise and you contemn them. That is the compensation. The snatchers can never know the joy of singing or of being pitied by ladies." "N... o, perhaps not," she consented doubtfully. The underglow of amusement in her eyes shone nearer to the surface.
In a neighborhood where you see scores of sparrows and goldfinches you will see only one pair of indigobirds. Their range of food is probably very limited. I have never chanced to see them taking food of any kind. How crowded with life every square rod of the fields and woods is, if we look closely enough!
When it is considered how young they were, and what a practical and busy life they led, this can not be surprising. Humphrey was now after something else. He had made several traps, and brought in rabbits and hares almost every day. He had also made some bird-traps, and had caught two goldfinches for Alice and Edith, which they put in the cages he had made for them.
Our way lies under yonder arch, and up the narrow alley into a paved court. Here are oleanders in pots, and plants of Japanese spindle-wood in tubs; and from the walls beneath the window hang cages of all sorts of birds a talking parrot, a whistling blackbird, goldfinches, canaries, linnets. Athos, the fat dog, who goes to market daily in a barchetta with his master, snuffs around.
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