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too ready to ees i 
dig the grain Z 
out of the ground. It is a most pertina- 
cious bird, and has very little idea of being 
driven away. If a flock of greenfinches are disturbed while 
feeding, they merely wing their way to another part of 
the same field, and settle down again. If they are driven 
off once more, they make for the nearest trees, and wait 
there until the intruder has gone away. And as, in winter- 
time, they congregate together in large numbers, they can 
do a good deal of mischief in a very short time. 
The members of these large flocks appear to be 
immigrants, which come to our shores from more northem 
countries in early autumn, and leave again in the spring ; for 
smaller parties, often mingled with sparrows and chaffinches, 
may be seen in gardens and fields in undiminished numbers. 
It is a somewhat curious fact that these 
Fy, winter visitors are distinctly more brightly 
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(i coloured than those which remain with us 
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throughout the year. 
The Greenfinch builds, as a rule, in 
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hedges, or in thick bushes in shrubberies. 
te 2 S The nest, which is seldom finished until May 
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