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and front of neck, chest, and lower parts, yellow. 

 South America to Straits of Magellan.* 



The Linnets. Linaria. Bechst. 



Have also the beak exactly conical, but shorter and 

 more obtuse than the gold-finches. They also live 

 on the grains of plants, particularly those of hemp 

 and flax, and bear the confinement of a cage ex- 

 tremely well. 



We have here two brown species, with some red 

 tints, more particularly named Linnets. The 

 young and the females vary in the quantity of red, 

 or want it altogether. The first has the beak almost 

 as much pointed as the gold-finch. It is. 



The Lesser Red-headed Linnet, Fr. Linaria. Linn. 

 Enl. 485. 2. Vieil. Gal. 68. Naum. 126. 



Brown, spotted with blackish above ; two white 

 bands across the wing ; the throat black ; the upper 

 part of the head red, as well as the breast of the 

 adult male, and sometimes even the croup. It is a 

 northern bird, of which a small and greater race 

 have been lately supposed to exist. See M. Vieillot's 

 Mem. Acad, de Turin, tom. xxiii. p. 193, &c. 



* Others add the following here : 

 Carduelis Mexicanus. Swain. 

 Fringilla tris'h. Lin. pi. Enl. 202. f. 2. 



Arkansaw. Siskin. Fring. Psdtna. Say. Bonap. Amer. Orn. t. 6. f. 3. 

 Pine Thrush. Fringilla Pinus. Wils. A. O. t. 6. f. 3. 



