He kept telling himself that probably the Bullfinches would not mind a bit, yet he still couldn't bring himself to going in a neighbor's house like a burglar.
But what if the Bullfinches had been invited out to dinner?
The Bullfincheshad an oil furnace but Jerry could see by the coal dust that there had once been coal in that bin.
It was obvious that the Bullfincheswere still not home.
While he had been fussing and fretting at the cellar window, the Bullfinches must have come home and Mr. Bullfinch had put on the Sousa record.
And where had he gone to so quickly before the Bullfinches got home?
Mother Superior tells me you have taught bullfinchesthe motives of 'The Ring,' is it true?
But look," continued Sister Mary John, "I have two bullfinches following me.
But the bullfinches happened to be away, and she wished that the priests' drone would cease to interrupt the melody of the birds and boughs.
Just fancy teaching bullfinches to sing the motives of 'The Ring,' It seemed to me I was in an enchanted garden.
She soon found that whistling to the bullfinches in Mrs d'Urberville's room was no such onerous business when she had regained the art, for she had caught from her musical mother numerous airs that suited those songsters admirably.
The sky had darkened, becoming shrouded in a murky blue; bullfinches chirruped in the snow under the windows.
The woodpecker could be heard amidst the pines, and daws, tomtits and bullfinches carolled merrily as they spread their wings and preened their plumage in the sun.
I find a trap cage or cages best, for bullfinches generally go in small parties, and I have taken two out at once from two separate cages, while others waited round and were caught afterwards.
When fresh caught, bullfinches are best placed in a low kind of box cage about six inches deep, with wires only on one side.
The same determined strength in the saddle, that had done him such good service amongst the bullfinches and "oxers" of his native Rutland, applied at the happy moment, secured on a great occasion his celebrated victory with King Lud.
It is well known that hemp-seed causes bullfinchesand certain other birds to become black.
Akka answered at once that the boy should try to get on good terms with all the small animals in the woods and fields: with the squirrel-folk, and the hare-family; with bullfinches and the titmice and woodpeckers and larks.
All around him there sat as many finches and bullfinches and starlings as the bush could well hold--who sang songs which he tried to teach himself to play.
Crested tits andbullfinches lived in great numbers in this forest and gave it quite a homelike appearance.
The Siberian Bullfinches inhabit the marshy, reed-covered districts of Northern Asia.
Tame Carmine Bullfinches are considered great curiosities; whilst writing, however, we are so fortunate as to have a male of this species before us.
The Carmine Bullfinches inhabit woods and districts covered with reeds in the north of Europe and Asia, and are found in great numbers in Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
The Bullfinches we are next about to describe differ from those already mentioned in the inferior richness of their plumage, which is neither so varied nor so bright in its hues, although beautifully marked.
Some Bullfinches can learn to sing two or three tunes without any great difficulty, whilst others never acquire precision.
Rose Bullfinches were often seen by Radde upon the Bareja Mountains.
A small quantity of green-stuff may also be added, and on this fare a little couple of Bullfinches may even be persuaded to undertake the cares of a family.
In the woods around Thüringen hundreds of young Bullfinches are caught annually, and sent, when properly educated, to the principal capitals of Europe, and even to America.
Bullfinches are very abundant in the forests of Germany, and it is there that most of the pipingbullfinches are trained.
That is a curious fact about the bullfinches all appearing to listen to the German singer (441/1.
Your fact about the bullfinches in your garden is most curious on this head.
These local bullfinches now form the only birds peculiar to the islands; and the reason is one well divined by one of your own great naturalists (to whom I mean before I end to make the amende honorable).
But at that time no seeds or fruits fit for bullfinches to eat existed on the islands.
For a long time, indeed, no otherbullfinches arrived at my archipelago.
The next day a market-gardener shot no less than six Bullfinches on his grounds.
It is only for a short period that the Bullfinches visit the fruit trees.
Take two neighbouring estates we know in Yorkshire; on the one sparrows, blackbirds, bullfinches and other birds are remorselessly shot during the fruit season; on the other the use of the gun is forbidden.
A net had been placed over the gooseberry bushes to protect the blossom, and much indignation was caused early one morning by the sight of three lusty Bullfinches within the meshes, and a quantity of promising blossom on the ground.
Bullfinches and thrushes are more subject to it than any other birds, and bleeding always cures them.
When wild, bullfinches are found over Europe and Russia.
The beak is dark brown; those which are bred from the nest, and which are easily reared on white bread soaked in milk, repeat the airs they are taught in a stronger and more distinct manner than bullfinches and linnets.
Bullfinches are common enough in our woods and gardens, but gardeners are sad enemies to these little birds, declaring that they spoil trees by picking off their buds.
Almost all the piping bullfinches as they are called, kept in cages in this country, are brought from Germany, where much care is devoted to their instruction in the art of music.
Bullfinches that are perfect in their song, are worth a great deal of money.
This one species, which inhabits the Azores, appears to be more closely related to one of the Siberian bullfinchesthan to the European.
To judge by their distribution, the Bullfinches (Pyrrhula) are of Asiatic origin, for seven species out of ten are confined to that continent.
Not quite so ancient as the Dippers, but likewise Asiatic in their origin, are the Bullfinches (Pyrrhula).
Of the Bullfinches the best known is the familiar bird (Pyrrhula europaea).
Had I never stolen the food, these birds might never have perished," she thought, as she saw the rosy throats of the robins and bullfinches turned upward in death on the turf.
Jerry trains the bullfinches with a queer little musical instrument, a bird organ it is called.
Jerry returned home with orders for many more bullfinches as he could procure.
In order to pipe tunes as bullfinches so marvellously do, they have to go through a period of training, and downright severe training the hapless mites find it.
It seems he knows a rare lot about training youngbullfinches to pipe real tunes.
To prevent or attempt to prevent the owner of a garden from shooting the bullfinches or blackbirds and so on that steal his fruit, or destroy his buds, is absurd.
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