Tree Sparrow Redpoll Pine Siskin 



528. Redpoll — Acanthis linaria linaria. 



Small. Length 5% inches. 



Male — Crown-patch bright red ; rump and breast 

 tinged with pink; belly white; sides streaked with 

 blackish; chin and upper throat blackish; wings 

 and tail blackish; trimmed with whitish, especially 

 wings. Female — Similar, but no pink on breast or 

 rump; sides more heavily streaked. 



This is a winter visitor; it moves about in flocks 

 in the fields, where it feeds on various weed-seeds, 

 or again the flock resorts to the birches of the 

 woods. The notes are musical and canary-like, 

 closely resembling those of the Goldfinch. It is a 



73 



