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What type of bird can be described as a small to medium-sized passerine bird in the family Fringillidae? Versions include oriole, desert, golden-naped, spectacled, and crimson-winged. Along with canaries, these birds were used in the U.S., U.K., and Canada in the coal mining industry to detect carbon monoxide from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

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