/ 



Class II. LESS RED HEADED LINNET. 345 



but not fo bright; yet in the breads of fome we 

 have found the red wanting : the belly is white : 

 the back du(ky, edged with reddifh brown : the 

 fides in fome yellowifh, in others afh color, but 

 both marked with narrow duflcy lines : the quil- 

 feathers, and thofe of the tail, are dufky, border- 

 ed with dirty white : the coverts duflvy, edged 

 with white, fo as to form two tranfverfe lines of 

 that color. The fpot on the forehead of the female 

 is of a fafFron color. The legs are duflcy. 



We have feen the neft of this fpecies on an alder 

 flump near a brook, between two or three feet 

 from the ground : it was made on the outfide with 

 dried ftalks of grafs and other plants, and here and 

 there a little wool, the lining was hair and a few 

 feathers : the bird ^^z^ fitting qt\ four eggs of a pale 

 bluilh green, thickly fprinkled near the blunt end 

 with fmall reddifh fpots. The bird was fo tena- 

 cious of her neft, as to fuffer us to take her oft 

 with our hand, and we found that after we had re- 

 leafed her (he would not forfake it. 



This feems to be the fpecies known about Lon» 

 don under the name o^ftone redpoll: is gregarious. 



Vol. I. A a Lc 



