196 TREATISE ON 



RED-BREASTED LINNET. 



ROSE LINTIE. 



Description and Plumage. 



This bird is rather longer then the redpole* 

 The hill is bluish-grey, inclining to pale wood- 

 brown, blackish at the point, — eyes umber-brown^ 

 — back and wings chestnut and yellowish-brown ; 

 some of the feathers slightly marked in the mid- 

 dle with umber-broAvn, — quills bluish-white, — tail i 

 bro^vnish-black, — outer feathers edged with bluish' 

 white — ^Ijreast pale lake, or carmine-red, beauti 

 fully waved horizontally. 



Below the breast, and downwards, very palei 

 wood-broAvn, inclining to ash-grey, and passing! 

 into yellowish and bluish-white, — legs and feelj 

 dingy yellowish-brown. The plumage of the back 

 and wings of the redpole are not so mucli mottlec 

 as those of the grey-linnet, and this bird's are less s( 



