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Also saw again one of the strange birds – yellow red-polls – we watched near the bridge, but could not approach as near as at the first interview; he was in our own garden among the beds, apparently eating insects as well as maple blossoms.
Rural Hours 1887
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There can be little doubt but the young observer had seen a pair of red-polls, -- a bird related to the goldfinch, and that occasionally comes down to us in the winter from the far north.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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After the cattle have eaten, the birds -- snow buntings and red-polls -- come and pick up the crumbs, the seeds of the grasses and weeds.
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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Glad as we are of the society of the goldfinches and the red-polls at this time of the year, we cannot easily rid ourselves of a degree of solicitude for their comfort; especially if we chance to come upon them after sunset on some bitterly cold day, and mark with what a nervous haste they snatch here and there a seed, making the utmost of the few remaining minutes of twilight.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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Many stories are told of the red-polls 'fearlessness and ready reconciliation to captivity, as well as of their constancy to each other.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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The red-polls and the goldfinches often travel together, or at least are often to be found feeding in company; and as they resemble each other a good deal in size, general appearance, and ways, the casual observer is very likely not to discriminate between them.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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Like the snow buntings and the red-polls, they roam over the higher latitudes of
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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He says that red-polls, linnets, and even canaries were kept by the boys in desks, drawers, hat-boxes, and other strange refuges for birds; but that white mice were the favorite stock, and that the boys trained the mice much better than the master trained the boys.
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844
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