Some Naturalized Foreigners 



from Brooklyn, and in the vicinity of Portland, 

 Oregon. 



In the early seventies the Acclimatization Society 

 of Cincinnati imported about twenty species of 

 European birds, spending nearly nine thousand dol- 

 lars on the four thousand individuals that were set at 

 liberty. Unhappily that laudable experiment proved 

 a failure. A similar society at Cambridge, Massa- 



The European goldfinch now naturalized in Massachusetts and New York 

 (Mounted specimen) 



chusetts, had better success, at least with its gold- 

 finches, whose descendants are now found in several 

 places in the eastern part of the state. Goldfinches 

 released in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1878, soon 

 found their way across the Hudson river to Central 

 Park, New York city, where their descendants still 

 flourish. Apparently the charming little black and 

 yellow American goldfinches gave their less amiable 



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