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Face Is Black:
The male American goldfinch is a lemon-yellow bird with a black crown and tail and black wings that have white bars; the female is a dull olive-yellow with blackish wings, prominently barred. In the European goldfinch, the sexes are similar. The face is black is red, the head and tail black and white, the back brown, and the wings black and yellow.Range: Southern New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, through Virginia to North Carolina Description: Back marked with saddles of brick-red outlined with black; saddles separated by pale gray; black-edged, dull collar back of head; nose and face is black gray, flecked with black; edges dark blood-red; grows to length of 30 inches.
Its hair is rather long, coarse, and black, but in typical forms the back from between the eyes to the base of the tail is blanketed with silver gray bordered by white, in strong contrast with the jet black of the limbs, face is black, and underparts. Some forms are entirely black, however, while in others only the top of the head is white. Like the skunk, the ratel has large, well-developed anal glands capable of ejecting at will a secretion that not only possesses a most objectional odor but has a burning effect when it comes in contact with the eyes, nose, and mouth.
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