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LESSER RED POLE FINCH. 

 (Fringilla Linaria.) 



Fr. Jusco griseoque varia, subtus albo rujescens, fascia alarum 



duplici albida, vertice pectoreque rubris. 

 Finch varied with fuscous and grey; beneath reddish white, 



with a double white band on the wings ; crown and breast 



red. 

 Fringilla Linaria. Lin. Syst. 1. 322. 2g. — Lin. Faun. Suec. 241. 



— Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. gi7.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 458. 83. 

 Linaria rubra minor. Briss. 3. 138. 31. 

 Le Sizerin, petite linotte des vignes. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 



2l6.—Buff. PL Ent. 151./. 2. 

 Lesser red-headed Linnet, or Redpole. Penn. Brit. Zool. 132. 



54. — Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 262. — Albin. Birds. 3. 75. — Leivin* 



Brit. Birds. 2. 85. — Mont. Brit. Birds. 2. — Lath. Gen. Syn,3. 



305. 75. — Lath. Syn. Sup. \QJ. — Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 174. 



'—Don. Brit. Birds. 5. 114. 



In length five inches : beak inclining to dull 

 yellow : irides hazel : forehead purplish red ; the 

 feathers of all the other parts above are dusky, 

 edged with rufous brown : chin black : throat 

 and breast pink : sides streaked with dusky : belly 

 white : quills and tail dusky, margined with pale 

 brown : in some the rump is tinged with blossom- 

 colour : legs dusky : female lighter in colour j 

 with the head yellowish, and the throat and breast 

 without the pink hue : the young bird very much 

 resembles the female : the males are subject to 

 very great variety. 



This species is very common in the winter, in 

 the southern parts of England, when it becomes 



