REDPOLL 
Cheep, cheep, cheep. 
Weet, weet, weet-weet-weet, 
Redpoll — The fearless and friendly Redpoll is a 
eis linaria}ittle crimson-tinged winter bird often 
ma eae roth 2ssociated in groups with the Goldfinch 
to April 7th during the winter months. Some individ- 
uals are apparently without the red, others are but slightly 
tinged with it, and still others possess quite a bright color. 
It is a distinctly boreal species, an irregular winter visitant 
of New York and New England, and has been abundant in 
1876, ’78, ’82, ’86, 789, ’99, 1906, ’08, 710, 714, 717 and 719. 
After the first week in April the bird is very seldom if ever 
seen. Inthe valley of the Pemigewasset River in the White 
- Mountains, it is far from uncommon. The general color- 
ing is that of a sparrow; streaky, ocherous brown above, 
crown often a bright light crimson, forehead and upper 
throat dusky sepia, the lower throat, breast, and rump 
dull pale crimson pink, under parts dull gray white, and 
the wings with whitish bars and edges, the bill is small, 
sharp, and rather straight with no perceptible arch. Fe 
male with little or no pink on the breast and rump. Nest, 
of dried grass and moss lined with the down of plants; it ig 
located in low bushes or tussocks of grass. Egg, bluish or 
greenish white sprinkled with burnt sienna brown. The 
species breeds from Alaska to northern Ungava and south- 
ward to Alberta and the islands of the Gulf of the St. 
Lawrence; in winter it migrates irregularly as far south aa 
Illinois and Virginia. 
To hear the song of the Redpoll one must journey to the 
far North; rarely the little bird pipes up before he leaves 
our northern States in early spring, when he does one will 
hear an ebullient, rippling series of notes, closely resem- 
bling the rapid chirps of the Canary (never the trills), rather 
thin and wiry in tone with the metallic, ringing quality of 
cut-glass. Here is a meagre record but it is the only one I 
have been able to secure. 
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