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By Alexander Wetmore
The diamond finch (Stagonopleura guttata)
is less often found but is highly regarded and
does well in captivity. It is decidedly heavier
in body than the zebra finch and is even more
strikingly marked
(Color Plate VI). It is
native in eastern Australia.
In the bush, diamond finches make long
bottle-shaped nests of grass in which to place
their four to seven white eggs. Often from
three to a dozen of their homes may be placed
beneath the great stick nest of a brown hawk
or a whistling eagle. these large neighbors
seeming entirely indifferent to the little birds
living beneath them.
Originally appeared in the December 1938 issue of the National Geographic Magazine
This Web version COPYRIGHT 2004
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