Chaffinch
a European bird, so by some much admired for its song.
This well-known and beautiful bird is locally called spink, beech-finch, pink, twink, skelly, shell-apple, horse-finch, scobby, y, and shilfa. It is the Fringilla s. It makes a cœlebs of ornithologists. beautiful nest, with four or five eggs, bluish-white, tinged with pink and with spots and streaks of purplish red. ican temperance advocate; born in East CHAFIN, EUGENE WILDER, Amer- 852. He practiced iced wat Troy, Wis., Nov. 1, 1852. law at Waukesha, Wis., from 1876 to 1900. From 1901 to 1904 he was superintendent of the Washingtonian Home, Chicago. He was active in the early stages of the Prohibition movement, both Chicago. He was active in the early inence in the movement led to his selection as candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1898. His party chose him as CHALCEDON its presidential nominee in 1908 and 1912.
He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court in 1909. He became a resident of Arizona in 1909. Among his writings are (1908), and "Washington as a States- (1896) "Lincoln, the Man of Sorrows" "Lives of the Presidents" man" (1909)..
CHAGOS ISLANDS or a group of islands in the Indian Ocean belonging to Great Britain; a S. extension of the Maldive Islands. The largabout 76 square miles. est, called Diego Garcia (chāgōs), Chagos, 100 miles S. of the main group, is about 15 miles long by 3 broad. They uct is cocoa-nut oil. Administratively are scantily peopled, and the chief prodthey are attached to Mauritius. Area, uct is cocoa-nut oil. Administratively are scantily peopled, and the chief prod- is about 15 miles long by 3 broad. They Chagos, 100 miles S. of the main group, Great Panama, on the N. coast of the Isthmus of Panama, at the mouth of the Chagres for vessels drawing from 10 to 12 feet of water. The river of the same name river. It is a poor place, with a harbor about 76 square miles. makes an immense bend round to the N. E., and enters the Caribbean Sea.
Though toward its mouth it varies in rises about 10 miles N. E. of Panama, The route of the Panama Canal is by the valley of the Chagres_for part of its course. used to operate the locks of the PANAMA depth from 16 to 30 feet, it is yet, by CANAL (q. v.) reason at once of its rapidity and its falls, but little available for navigation.
The water of the Chagres is The route of the Panama Canal is by falls, but little available for navigation. appointed lieutenant-colonel by the Khearmy he went to Egypt, where he was dive (1870). Gordon made him chief-of-