22 REDPOLL. 



REDPOLL. 



LESSER REDPOLE. LESSER REDPOLE LINNET. 

 PLATE LXXXIX. 



Linaria minor, MACGILLIVRAY. 



Fringilla Hnaria, LINN^US. LATHAM. 



Fringilla Hnaria, KEYS, ETC. 



Spinus Hnaria, KOCK. 



Linota linan'a, BUONAPARTE. 



Fringilla rufescens, VIELLOT. 



Linaria flavirostris, EYTON. 



Linaria alnorum, BREHM. 



Linaria rubra, STEPHENS. 



Linaria betularum, BREHM. 



THE nest, about an inch and a half across, is built 

 in a low bush or tree, such as an alder, hawthorn, 

 hazel, osier, or willow, seven or eight feet, and some- 

 times much more, from the ground, but a good deal 

 lower, or in heather, and is fabricated of moss, hair, 

 wool, stems of grass, and willow catkins, the latter being 

 also used for the lining, as likewise feathers. I have 

 been informed by Mr. F. Wise, of Arram, in Holderness, 

 of one at a height of about twenty feet, on the end of 

 a bough of an oak, among a tuft of small shoots where 

 the end had been broken off. It is rather carefully 

 and neatly constructed, sometimes very much so. 

 Several nests are often built quite near together. 



