306 
Eh) Nw. CL 
wool, and lined with hair and feathers. The eegs were four in: 
number, of a pale blueifh green, thickly fprinkled near the- 
blunt end with fmall reddifh fpots. The bird was fo tenacious. 
of her neft, as to fuffer herfelf to be taken off by. the hand, and 
when releafed would not forfake it *. 
This fpecies is known about Loudon by the name of Stone- 
Redpole, 
Linneus, Kramer, and others, mention its being very fond of | 
the feeds of Alder. This we have feen frequently ; for whole 
flocks of thefe birds, mixed with the Sifkin, frequent many places. 
where d/ders grow, for the fake of picking the catkins; they ge-- 
nerally hang like the Titmou/fe, with the back. downwards, and 
‘in this ftate are fo intent on their work, that they may be en-- 
tangled one after another by dozens, by means of a twig fmeared: 
with birdlime, fattened to the end of a fifhing-rod, or other: 
long pole. 
This fpecies feems to be in plenty throughout. Europe, from: 
the extreme parts of Rufia, on the one hand, to Jzaly on the 
other. Is very common in Groenland, and was. alfo met with by. 
our late voyagers at Avonalafbkat. In America it is. likewife 
well known. Hence it feems to be a bird. common to the whole- 
of the northern part of the globe without exception. 
* Br. Zool. + Ellis’s Voy, ii. po. 15% 
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