EUROPEAN GOLDFINCH 217 



seen in the suburbs of Boston in recent 

 years, some birds having been designedly 

 liberated some years ago, it is quite possi- 

 ble that this bird was acquainted with life 

 in nature rather than with life within a cage, 

 and it is thus classified as a bird of the wild 

 descended from parents which were once 

 introduced and set free. 



