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LINARIA MINOR. THE SMALLER REDPOLL 

 LINNET. 



LESSER REDPOLL. 



Fringilla Linaria. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 322. 



Fringilla Linaria. Lath. Ind. Om. I. 458. 



Lesser Redpoll. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Gros-bec Sizerin. Fringilla Linaria. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 373. 



Lesser Redpoll Linnet. Linaria Minor. Selb. Illustr. L 320. 



Fringilla Linaria. Lesser Redpoll. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 138. 



Length nearly five inches. 



Male in wi7iter, with the hill dusky above, the throat blackish, 

 the back and sides yelloivish-brotcn, streaked with dusky-brown, 

 the loral space and edge of the forehead brownish-black, the 

 feathers on the upper part of the head and rump dull red. 

 Female similar, but without red on the rump, and hating the 

 dark streaks larger. 



Male in summer, with the edge of the forehead, the loral space, 

 amd the throat, black ; the upper part of the head crimson, the 

 sides of the neck, the breast, and the rump carmine. Female 

 with the fore part of the head crimson, the throat black, the other 

 parts nearly as in icinter. 



Male. — The Smaller Redpoll is the most diminutive of our 

 native Passerine birds, and withal so delicate, lively, and affec- 

 tionate a creature, that it is a special favourite with most people 



