320 INSESSORES. LINARIA. LINNET. 



brown instead of black. Her bill is yellowish, tipped 

 with brown. 



LESSER REDPOLE LINNET. 



LINARIA MINOR, Hay. 

 PLATE LIV. FIG. 10. 



Linaria minor, North. Zool. 2. 267. No. 80. 



Fringilla Linaria, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 322. 29 Fauna Suec. No. 241 Gmel. 



Syst. 1. p. 917. sp. 29 Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 458. sp. 83. 

 Linaria rubra minor, Rail Syn. p. 91. A. 9 Will. p. 176. t. 43 Briss. 3. 



p. 138. 31. 

 Fringilla flavirostris, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 322. 27 Gmel Syst. 1. p. 915. sp. 27- 



Lath. Ind. Ornith. 438. sp. 16. svn. of young. 



Le Cabaret, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 76 Id. PL Enl. 485. f. 2. male. 



Gros-Bec Sizerin, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 373. 



Petite Linotte des Vignes, Briss. v. 3. p. 138. old male. 



Bergreisig, BechsL Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 879 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 



v. 1. p. 171 Frisch. Vog. t 10. f. 2. 



Lesser Red-headed Linnet or Redpole, Br. Zool. No. 132. t. 54 Arct. 



Zool. 2. No. 305. 75 Will. (Ang.) 260. t. 46 Lath. Syn. 3. p. 305 



Id. Sup. p. 167 Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 85 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 62 



Wale. Syn. 2. t. 223 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 1 2 Bewick's Br. Birds, p. 



1. 174 Shaw's Zool. v. 9. p. 519. t. 70. copy from BEWICK Low's Faun. 



Oread, p. 64. 

 Arctic Finch, Arct. Zool. 2. p. 379. A Lath. Syn. 3. p. 260. 12. 



THIS bird is considerably less than the Common and 

 Mountain Linnets *, and although, like them, subject to a 

 partial change of colour at a particular season, may be rea- 

 dily distinguished from them, as well by other peculiar 

 characteristics as by its inferiority of size. It is only known 

 in the southern parts of Britain as a winter visitant, and is 



* A large variety of this species is noticed by TEMMINCK, and which 

 is sometimes met with in this country. I have accordingly represented an 

 individual of this variety (Plate 53** Fig. 2.) from a specimen in the col- 

 lection of Sir WILLIAM JARDINE, Bart. In size it nearly equals the 

 Common Linnet, but the markings and colour are those of the Lesser 



Redpole 1833 : I am now inclined to think that these birds will not 



be of a distinct species, but only extra-sized specimens of the female of 

 Lin. minor 



