Bi ID NAC! EE 
throat is pale rufous, and a ftreak of the fame over the eyes; the lower 
part of the neck behind rufous, but darker than the throat: tail even 
at the end; but the tips of the feathers run off to a fharp point. 
Inhabits the internal parts of Georgia, in America. I met with this 
at Mr. Humpbries’s, among other fpecimens brought from thence. It 
was entitled Spotted Grafs Sparrow. 
Fringilla Georgiana, Jud. Ora. i. p. 460. 86. 
ENGTH fix inches: bill dufky: irides brown: head brown, 
full of feathers: middle of the back -dufky brown; the under 
parts are white: chin and throat grey ; beneath the jaw a divaricated 
ftreak of black: the lefler wing coverts are rufous, and the quills and 
tail feathers are rufous on the outer edges: legs brown. 
Found in the fame places as the laft. 
Fringilla cannabina, Ind. Orn. i. p. 458. 82.—Bolton’s Br. Birds, pl. 29. 30. 
Greater Red-headed Linnet or Redpole, Gen, Syn. ill. pe 304. 
HAVE been long inclined to think the poffibility of the Common 
or Grey Linnet, as it is called, and the Redpole, proving only one 
f{pecies ; and in this 1am encouraged by that excellent obferver Mr. 
Boys, of Sandwich, as well as by Colonel Montagu, both of whom have 
hinted their fufpicions in refpect to this fact; the way to account for 
it is, to fuppofe that the Common Linnet is not complete in refpe& to 
the red of the forehead, till the end of the fecond year at fooneft, yet 
- ds capable of breeding in the firft {pring after being hatched. I have 
obferved in the male NF the Grey Linnet, the mane feathers to appear 
externally like the reft of the upper parts, but on lifting them up, a 
tinge of red was very manifeft. One of thefe birds brought to me in 
the month of Fanuary, was feemingly in its change, for the feathers of 
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GEORGIAN 
Breen tie 
Pracs, 
II. 
REDPOLE 
