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LINOTA EUFESCENS. 



(LESSEE, REDPOLL.) 



Passer linaria minima, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 142 (1760). 



Le Cabaret, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 76 (1778). 



Fringilla linaria, var. /3, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 459 (1790). 



% Fringilla cabaret, P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 165 (1776). 



Linaria rufescens, Vieill. Mem. Eeal. Accad. Sc. Tor. xxiii. Sc. Fis. p. 202 (1816-1818). 



Linaria minor, Selby, Brit. Orn. i. p. 320 (1833). 



Acanthis rufescens (Vieill.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 540 (1850). 



Mgiothus rufescens (Vieill.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 161 (1850-1851). 



Linacanthis rufescens (Vieill.), Des Murs, Encycl. d'Hist. Nat. v. p. 304, fide Degl. & Gerbe, 



Orn. Eur. i. p. 297 (1867). 

 Linota linaria, auctt. Britt. (excipe Newton), nee Linn. 

 Linota rufescens (Vieill.), Newton, Yarr. Brit. Birds, ed. 4, ii. p. 146 (1876). 



Figuras notabiles. 



Selby, 111. Brit. Orn. pi. 54. fig. 10 ; Bp. & Schlegel, Mon. des Lox. pi. 54 ; Gould, B. of 

 G. Brit. iii. pi. 52. 



Ad. ptil. test. Linota linaria similis sed minor, corpore suprk magis rufescenti-fusco, tectricibus alarum supe- 

 rioribus pallide brunnescente cervino nee albo terminatis. 



Ad. ptil. Mem. corpore supra sicut in Linota linaria colorato, sed plumis pallide rufescente fusco nee albido 

 marginatis. 



Adult Male in spring (Hampstead) . Resembles Linota linaria, but is smaller in size ; the upper parts are 

 darker and more rufous in tinge of colour; rump more strongly marked with dark colour than in 

 L. linaria ; and the bands on the wing are pale reddish buff, not white ; soft parts as in L. linaria. 

 Total length about 4"25 inches, culmen 0"4, wing 2 - 75, tail 2 - 4, tarsus 055. 



Adult Female. Differs from the male in being rather smaller in size, in lacking the pink on the rump and 

 breast ; underparts dull white with a brownish tinge ; breast, sides of body, and flanks streaked with 

 dull brown. Wing 2'65, tail 2 - 4, tarsus 0'54. 



Adult Male in winter. Upper parts as in summer dress ; but the edgings to the feathers are longer, making 

 the general coloration of the upper parts more rufescent ; underparts white ; throat and breast washed 

 with brownish buff; flanks streaked with dark brown; bill yellow, tipped with brown; iris and legs 

 dark brown. 



Young. Resembles the young of L. linaria, but is rather more rufescent brown in general tone of colour. 



Owing to the confusion that has hitherto existed in the determination of the various forms of 



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