320 BIRDS^-FRINGILLIDJE. 



notes that Mr. Dury took a single specimen in the vicinity of Cincinnati 

 in January, 1869. Dr. Brewer (1. c.) says : 



"Dr. Kirtland informs me that early in the winter of 1866, his grandson picked up a 

 wing-broten male Red-poll, and placed it In his green-house. It began at once to feed 

 on crumbs of bread and hay-seed, and rapidly recoveied. It soon acquired the habit ot 

 leaping from shelf to shelf, among the plants, and was finally seen climbing up some 

 large Pelargonium shiubs, and suspending itself, parrot lilse, by its feet from the limbs, 

 capturing aphides. From that time it took no other food, living exclusively on the par- 

 asitic insects of the plants. So active was it in captuiing iihese, that for two months it 

 was not necessary to famigate the grten-honse to destroy them. From day to day a 

 female Red-poll hovered over the building, and her calls were responded to by the in- 

 valid. Late in the season he escaped from his contiuement, and was seen to join his 

 faithful mate, which had remained with him all winter." 



, In habits the Red-poll is said to resemble greatly the Common Yellow- 

 bird, and its flight is similar. The nest is buils in low trees and bushes; 

 it is constructed of moss, grass, and catkius of y^illow, and lined with 

 vegetable down. The eggs are light bluish-white, finely dotted with 

 rusty-brown. They average ,65 by 53, 



Genus CHRYSOMITRIS. Boie. 



Bill rather acutely conic. Nostrils concealed. Ridges on upper mandible obsolete. 

 Tarsi shorter than middle toe, outer toe rather longer than inner. Claw of hind toe 

 shorter than its digit. Wings and tail as in JEgiotTius. 



Chrysomiteis pinus (Wils,) Bp. 



i^ine Linnet. 



Fringilla pinea, Storkr, Proo, Bost, Socf. Nat. Hist., ii, 1845, 52. 



Linaria pinus, Kirtland, Fam. Vibitor, i, 1850, 140. 



Clirysomiiris pinus, Baird, P. R, R, Rep., ix, 18,j8, 42.'>, — Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Rep, for 



1860, 1861, 365; Reprint, 7; Food of Birds, etc, Ohio Agric, Rep, fur 1874, 1875, 



566; Reprint, 6, — Langdon, Cat, Birds of Gin., 1877, 8; Revised List, .Jonrn, Cin. 



Soc, Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 175; Reprint, 9, 

 Pine Finch, Kirtland, Fam, Visitor, i, 1850, 148, 164 ; Am, Journ, Sci, and Arts, xiii, 



1852, 218. 



Fringilla pinus, Wilson, Am. Orn., ii, 1810, 133, 

 Ckryaomitris pinns, Bonapartb, List, 1838, 33. 



Bill extremely acute ; continuously streaked above with dusky and olivaceous-brown 

 or flaxen ; below with dusky and whitish, the whole plumage in the breeding season 

 more or less suffused with yellowish, particularly bright on the rnmp ; the bases of the 

 quills and tail feathers extensively sulphury yellow, and all these feathers more or less 

 edged externally with yellowish. Length, 4f ; wing, 2f ; tail. If. 



Habitat, North America generally. United States chiefly in winter; south in Rocky 

 Mountains to Mexico. 



