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  2. Cassin's finch - Wikipedia

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    Weight: 0.8-1.2 oz (24-34 g) Wingspan: 9.8-10.6 in (25-27 cm) Adults have a short forked brown tail and brown wings. They have a longer bill than the purple finch. Adult males are raspberry red on the head, breast, back and rump; their back and undertail are streaked. Adult females have light brown upperparts and light underparts with brown ...

  3. List of Virginia state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Mecklenburg Correctional Center: Boydton: Closed 2012 Nottoway Correctional Center: Burkeville: 1,112 Patrick Henry Correctional Unit Ridgeway: 136 Pocahontas State Correctional Center: Pocahontas: 1,034 Powhatan Correctional Center Closed 2015 Red Onion State Prison: Pound: 848 River North Correctional Center: Independence: 1,024 Rustburg ...

  4. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Department of Corrections ( VADOC) is the government agency responsible for community corrections and operating prisons and correctional facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The agency is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association and is one of the oldest functioning correctional agencies ...

  5. Red Onion State Prison - Wikipedia

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    24279. Country. United States. Website. vadoc .virginia .gov /facilities /western /redonion /. Red Onion State Prison ( ROSP) is a supermax state prison located in unincorporated Wise County, Virginia, [ 4] near Pound. Operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC), it houses about 800 inmates. [ 3] The prison opened in August 1998.

  6. Purple finch - Wikipedia

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    The purple finch was designated the state bird of New Hampshire in 1957. [13] The New Hampshire red hen (breed of domestic chicken) was also proposed, but was not chosen in favor of the purple finch. [14] In 1763, Richard Brookes made the description of the female purple finch in Mexico with the name of "chiantototl" (chia seed bird). [15]

  7. American rosefinch - Wikipedia

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    American rosefinch. The American rosefinches that form the genus Haemorhous are a group of passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae. As the name implies ("haemo" means "blood" in Greek), various shades of red are characteristic plumage colors of this group. They are found throughout the North American continent .

  8. Mycoplasma gallisepticum - Wikipedia

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    Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is a bacterium in the class Mollicutes and the family Mycoplasmataceae. It causes chronic respiratory disease (CRD) in chickens and infectious sinusitis in turkeys, chickens, game birds, pigeons, and passerine birds of all ages. [ 1][ 2] Mycoplasma gallisepticum is a significant pathogen in poultry.

  9. Virginia in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Robertson, James I. Jr. "The Virginia State Convention" in Virginia at War 1861. editors Davis, William C. and Robertson, James I. Jr. (2005) ISBN 0-8131-2372-0. Robertson, James I. Civil War Virginia: Battleground for a Nation, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia 1993 ISBN 0-8139-1457-4; 197 pages excerpt and text search