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EXOTIC SI-ARROWS Lower litfure, Mouse Sparrow ; next, European Tree Sparrow (From 



Brebni). 



* GOLDFINCH, runlm-li* runlm-li.* (Linn.) Geog. Dist. Europe and West- 

 ern Aala; introduced and naturalized in portions of Eastern United States. 



The European Goldfinch has been introduced and successfully naturalized in 

 various portions of East*- rnit. <] States, as in New York, Hoboken, New Jersey 

 and in the vicinity of Cambridge, Mass., etc. In Central Park, Nc\v York city, it is 

 considered a common resident. April 20, 1886, Mr. K. T. Adney discovered two 

 In Central Park, one of which contained fivo fresh eggs. The nests \\ r> iilarod in 

 pine trees, among the tufts of long pine needles, near the end of a slender hori- 

 zontal limb, about twelve feet from the ground. The nest of the European Goldfinch 

 Is a handsome, compact, cup-shaped structure, made of fine, soft grasses, vegetable 

 fibres and mosses. It is thick-walled and substantial, often built in bushes and 



