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<$ ad. (Scotland). Crown, hind-neck, and upper parts dark hair-brown 

 with lighter tawny brown margins ; rump rose-red ; wings and tail 

 blackish brown, the primaries with white, the secondaries with tawny 

 brown margins, the wing-coverts with ochreous tips ; the tail-feathers 

 with white margins ; supercilium, sides of the face, throat, breast, and 

 flanks tawny buff, the lower throat and breast streaked with blackish 

 brown ; rest of the under parts dull white ; beak yellowish flesh ; legs 

 dark brown ; iris hazel. Culmen 0'4, wing 2 '95, tail 2 '55, tarsus 0'65 

 inch. The female resembles the male but is paler and lacks the red on the 

 rump. In the winter the light margins to the feathers are broader, the 

 red on the rump of the male is confined to the middle of the feathers, and 

 the bill is greyish yellow. 



Ilab. Northern Europe ; Great Britain ; on passage and in 

 winter south to the Mediterranean. 



In habits it resembles L. canncibind but frequents open locali- 

 ties, and not woods, and is as a rule shy and wild. Its call -note 

 resembles that of the Linnet, but is less harsh, and its song is 

 rather superior to that of the Redpoll. It feeds on insects and 

 seeds of various kinds. Its nest is placed in a low bush or on 

 the ground, and is constructed of fine twigs, bents, rootlets, 

 and wool, lined with hair, fur, or wool. Its eggs, 4 to 6 in 

 number, are usually deposited in May, and are pale blue, 

 marked chiefly at the larger end with dark red, and measure 

 about 0-68 by 0'52. 



460. SUBSP. LlNOTA BREVIROSTRIS. 



Linota brevirostris, Bp. Comp. List. p. 34 (1838) ; Hume, and Henders. 

 Lah. to Yark. p. 260, pi. 26 ; Dresser, iv. p. 65, pi. 192 ; Gates, F. 

 Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p. 229 ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 238. 



G-vrnud rapoloff, Russ. 



<$ ad. (Erzeroum). Differs from L. flavirostris in being much paler, 

 the feathers on the upper parts margined with pale brownish buff or buffy 

 white ; under wing-coverts white. Culmen 0'33, wing 3'15, tail 2'7, tarsus 

 07 inch. 



Hob. Asia Minor to Persia, Turkestan, Mongolia, Tibet, and 

 Manchuria. 



In habits it is said not to differ from L. flavirostris. I 

 received the nest and four eggs from Erzeroum together with 

 the parent bird. The nest is constructed of fine bents, wool, 

 and plant-down, neatly lined with plant-down and wool 

 together with one or two feathers. The eggs resemble those 



