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See also:BULLFINCH (Pyrrhula vulgaris) , the See also:ancient See also:English name given to a See also:bird belonging to the See also:family Fringillidae (see See also:FINCH), of a bluish-See also:grey and See also:black See also:colour above, and generally of a See also:bright See also:tile-red beneath, the See also:female differing chiefly in having its under-parts See also:chocolate-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown. It is a shy bird, not associating with other See also:species, and frequents well-wooded districts, being very rarely seen on See also:moors or other See also:waste lands. It builds a shallow See also:nest composed of twigs lined with fibrous roots, on See also:low trees or thick underwood, only a few feet from the ground, and See also:lays four or five eggs of a bluish-See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white colour speckled and streaked with See also:purple. The See also:young remain with their parents during autumn and See also:winter, and pair in See also:spring, not See also:building their nests, however, till May. In spring and summer they feed on the buds of trees and bushes, choosing, it is said, such only as contain the incipient blossom, and thus doing immense injury to orchards and gardens. In autumn and winter they feed principally on See also:wild fruits and on seeds. The See also:note of the bullfinch, in the wild See also:state, is soft and pleasant, but so low as scarcely to be audible; it-possesses, however, See also:great See also:powers of See also:imitation, and considerable memory, and can thus be taught to See also:whistle a variety of tunes. Bullfinches are very abundant in the forests of See also:Germany, and it is there that most of the piping bullfinches are trained. They are taught continuously for nine months, and the See also:lesson is repeated through-out the first moulting, as during that See also:change the young birds are See also:apt to forget all that they have previously acquired. The See also:bull-finch is a native of the See also:northern countries of See also:Europe, occurring in See also:Italy and other See also:southern parts only as a winter visitor. White and black varieties are occasionally met with; the latter are often produced by feeding the bullfinch exclusively on See also:hemp-See also:seed, when its plumage gradually changes to black. It rarely breeds in confinement, and hybrids between it and the See also:canary have been produced on but few occasions.
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