414 LIN OTA RUFESCENS. 



LINOTA RUFESCENS (Vieillot). 

 LESSER REDPOLL. 



^ 2226. Three. [Apparently from different nests.] 



Taken by ray brother George, who says, in a letter, '' I am certain 

 of the Lesser Redpoll. I have taken the nests at various places — at 

 Rugby, at Beeston, and, I believe, at Wirksworth. I watched the 

 birds for some time.'' 



[The substance of the above was communicated to Mr. Hewitson, and 

 published by him in 1843 in the second edition of his 'Eggs of British 

 Birds ' (i. p. 166).] 



\S 2227. Jm?o.— Barnham, Suffolk, 14 May, 1846. 



From a nest of six eggs, built against the trunk of a larch-tree, six or seven 

 feet from the ground (Zoologist, p. 1497).] 



\S 2228. Owe.— Barnham, April, 1848.] 

 \S 2229. Owe.— Barnham, May, ] 849.] 

 \S 2230. %/^/.— Elveden, May, 1852. 



From five out of six different nests, all of vrhich my brother or I found 

 between the 6th and 28th of the month, mostly by watching the birds fi'om 

 their watering-places, which several years' experience shewed us was the only 

 way to ensure success. The nests were nearly all in young larches of no great 

 height, and built close to the trunk ; but one was in an old and tall larch, many 

 feet from the ground, and, being built near the outer end of an horizontal 

 branch, the taking of it was attended by considerable difficulty and some 

 danger. The operation was, however, effected by tying the branch to the one 

 immediately above it, and then, after sawing it off at the butt, by carefully 

 rotating it horizontally as it hung, until the nest was brought within reach.] 



[§2231. i^/t;e.— Leek, Donegal, 29 May, 1862. " R. H." 

 From Mr. Robert Harvey.] 



