304 
74. 
+ GREATER 
REDPOLE. 
DeEscCRIPTION’ 
FEMALE. 
PLACE AND 
Manners. 
Beer ON IC MEK 
The other, with a greenifh bill, the legs black, and a very 
forked tail: otherwife like the common Linnet. 
One, wholly white, is alfo in the Leverian Mufeum. 
_ Fringilla cannabina, Liz. Syf. i. p. 322. 28.—Faun. Suec. 240.—Scop. ann, i. 
Ne 219.—Kram. el. p. 368. 8.—Brun. N° 263.—Mauller, N° 261.— 
Frifch. pl.g.s £. 1. 2.— Georgi Reife, p. 174. 
La grande Linotte de Vignes, Brif. orm. il. p. 135. 30.—Buf. oi/. iv. p. 58. 
f —Pi, enl. 485: f. 1. 
Greater. Red-headed: Linnet, Raii Syn. p. gt. A. 2.—Will. orn. p. 260.— 
Albin, iii. pl. 72+ 73.—Br. Zool.i. N° 131. pl. §5.—Ara, Zool. 
si Br. Muf.. Lev. Muf. 
ATHER lefs than the common Linnet, and about the fame 
length. The bill is dufky: irides hazel : on the forehead 
is a blood-coloured fpot: the reft of the head and neck afh- 
colour: the breaft tinged with a fine rofe-colour: back, wing 
coverts, and {fcapulars, bright reddifh. brown: the firft quill 
feather black ; the exterior and interior edges of the eight fol- 
lowing white, forming a bar of white on the wing: the fides are 
yellow: middle of the belly white: tail a little forked, dufky,. 
edged with white: the legs brown. 
The head of the: female is afh-coloured, fpotted with black: . 
back and fcapulars of a brownifh red: breaft and fides dirty yel-. 
low, ftreaked with dufky lines. 
_ This bird is frequently met with in flocks on the /ea-coafts, and’ 
in flight-time near London ;, and is alfo common on the continent 
of Europe, like the former, but found more worthward than that 
bird, in which parts it breeds *. Ie is likewife found in America, 
* Ihave been told that it chiefly breeds in the northern parts of England 
and Scotland, upon the mountains.. Dr. Hey/oam tells-me that it breeds in 
Cumberland, 
where, 
