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Nightingale, if kept near those birds, and can even be 

 taught to articuUite some words. 



Their song usually consists of a sharp repetition of a 

 sound resembling the word " Fink" or " Pink," and it is 

 from the former of these that the word Fiiich is derived. 

 Although his musical powers are by no means perfect, the 

 note of the Chaffinch is always heard with pleasure, being- 

 associated with early spring ; and the sprightliness of the 

 little bird renders him a universal favourite except with 

 gardeners, whose radish-seed, sowed at a period when 

 food is usually rather scarce, is too great a temptation for 

 him to resist, and which he will frequently steal, almost 

 before it has been covered by the soil. 



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