THE CHAFFINCH. 



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white, wings dark and mottled with white, tail dark, and 

 breast tinged with cream colour. 



Mr. Hardy says that the Chaffinch appears to be a 

 long-lived bird, for a Mr. Moffat, a retired schoolmaster 

 in Ay ton, had one in 1845 which had lived as a cage-bird 

 for eighteen years. 





