0 a small brightly coloured bird of the finch family, with yellow feathers. Some types also have red feathers on their heads.
Another bird which needs protection is the goldfinch.
I know a common near a populous town which in my recollection was full of goldfinches.
She took and dipped a goldfinch and sold that.
In all of them the eggs of the goldfinch are at present protected.
There is not a goldfinch to be seen there to-day; the bird catcher has been there.
I am not aware of any grounds for the suggestion that the goldfinch is almost extinct in this country.
I have been in many modest homes where the bullfinch, the chaffinch and the goldfinch have been made the objects of love, thought and attention.
He found a barrow with wooden cages containing linnets, goldfinches, and a variety of other birds, and as buying was brisk he described exactly what took place.
