37S , CINEREOUS FINCH, AND GREATER REDPOLL. 



It alfo inkabits Greenland, but continues there only in the fummer,. 

 Makes an ardefs neft of mofs and grafs, lined with a few feathers ; 

 and lays in June five or fix eggs, of a clay-color, clouded : departs 

 early *, Is found in Lapland, in the Feroe ifles, the northern 

 parts of Sibiria, and' near the UralUan chain, where ic breeds. 

 Arrives in flocks, from the fouth;^ and frequent the fields at the 

 firft flowering of the Draba verna, or IVhitlo-w-grafs. Has nearly 

 the note of a Linnet ; but its flight is higher, and more lading. 

 It r«ns on the ground like a Lark; and feeds on feeds. 



z6o. CiMEREous, 17 With the head, upper part of the body, wings, and tail, deep- 

 ■^ • cinereous brown, edged with obfcure ruft-color : at the corner 

 of the upper mandible is a light grey line; another bounds the 

 cheeks beneath j and a dufky line bounds that: the throat is of a 

 light grey : under fide of the neck pale cinereous, marked with 

 great duiky black fpots : middle ©f the belly whitiili : bill long J 

 that and the legs dufky. 

 Place. Inhihili Vnalafcha. Latham, ii. 274^ 



261. Greatik Greater Red-headed Linnet, 5r. Zoe/. I. N" 131. — Latham, ri,r ^0^, 



Redpoll. Hampling, Faun. Suec. N" 240. 



La Linotte, De Buffon, iv. 58. — PU Enl. 485.— Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



T? With a blood-red fpot on the forehead : breafi: tinged with 

 ■*■ • rofe-color. In the European fpecies, a ruft-color prevales in all 

 the upper part of the body ; in this the greateft portion is whitev 

 Length five inches and a half: Extent nine. 

 Place. jg found in the northern parts of North America. Is feen only in 



the fouth and weft of Ruffia : yet is met with in Scandmavia, as 

 high as Drontheim, None in Sibiria. 



* Fauna Gretnl. 11^, 



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