138 AVES INSESSORES. [FRINOILLA. 



DIMENS. Entire length four inches seven lines : length of the bill 

 (from the forehead) four lines and a half, (from the gape) five lines and a 

 half; of the tarsus six lines and a half; of the tail one inch nine lines; 

 from the carpus to the end of the wing two inches nine lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Throat, crown, and occiput, deep black: nape 

 variegated with dusky and greenish yellow : above and rather behind the 

 eye a broad streak of sulphur-yellow : neck, breast, and belly, yellow : 

 back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts, yellowish green, inclining to 

 ash-gray, with a longitudinal dusky spot in the centre of each feather : 

 greater coverts black, tipped with yellow : quills dusky with yellow edges : 

 tail dusky, all the feathers except the two middle ones with a large yellow 

 spot near the base extending over both webs : sides and lower part of the 

 abdomen whitish, with longitudinal dusky streaks : bill whitish, the tip 

 black : feet pale brown. (Female.) All the upper parts, cheeks, and sides 

 of the neck, cinereous, with longitudinal dusky spots : under parts yel- 

 lowish white; breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts, with dusky green 

 streaks : the transverse bars on the wings, and the yellow edging of the 

 quills, paler than in the other sex. (Egg.) Pale bluish white, spotted 

 with purple brown. 



A winter visitant, but not making its appearance regularly. Occa- 

 sionally observed in large flocks in Cambridgeshire about the commence- 

 ment of the new year, during its stay in which parts, it appears to feed 

 almost entirely on the seeds of the alder. Is known also in Norfolk, 

 Suifolk, Sussex, Middlesex, and Northumberland. Breeds in the North 

 of Europe, and is said to build in the highest branches of the pine. Lays 

 five eggs. 



(5. LINARIA, Steph.) 



99. F. Linaria, Linn. (Lesser Redpole.) Forehead, 

 lore, and throat, black : bill much compressed towards the 

 tip, yellowish : feet brown. 



F. Linaria, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 373. Lesser Redpole, 

 Mont. Orn. Diet. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 200. Selb. Illust. 

 vol. i. p. 320. pi. 54. f. 6. 



DIMENS. Entire length five inches three lines: length of the bill 

 (from the forehead) three lines, (from the gape) four lines and a quarter ; 

 of the tarsus six lines and a half; of the tail two inches one line; from 

 the carpus to the end of the wing two inches eight lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Male in Spring.) Forehead, space between the bill and 

 the eye, chin and throat, black : crown of the head deep crimson : occi- 

 put, nape, and upper part of the back, blackish brown, the feathers edged 

 with pale reddish brown : sides of the throat, fore part of the neck, breast, 

 sides of the abdomen, and rump, carmine-red, the latter tinged with 

 grayish ; middle of the belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, white tinged 

 with rose-colour: wings and tail dusky, the feathers edged with pale 

 reddish brown ; wing-coverts tipped with pale yellowish brown, so as to 

 shew two transverse bars : bill more compressed than in the next species ; 

 yellow, the culmen and tip dusky : feet brown. (Female.) Less red on 

 the crown of the head ; forehead brown, mixed with yellowish white : 

 rump and under parts only slightly tinged with rose-red : throat dusky ; 

 breast and middle of the belly whitish ; flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts, 

 marked with large longitudinal spots of blackish brown. (Egg.) Pale 

 blue, speckled and streaked with pale purplish red, and reddish brown : 

 long, diam, seven lines and a half; trans, diam. five lines and a half. 



