HE Greenfinch, which also goes by the name 
T of the “‘ Green Linnet,” is one of the best- 
known of our smaller birds, not only because it is very 
common in almost all parts of the country, but also from 
its fondness for nesting in gardens. It is another of those 
birds in which virtue and vice are almost equally combined, 
the virtue consisting in its habit of feeding its young entirely 
upon caterpillars and other insects, and the vice in 
its liking for the cornfields, where it often does 
almost as much mischief as the sparrow 
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