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with its claw as long as the third with its claw; the lateral toes equal; claws 

 large, moderately arched, much compressed, acute. 



Plumage soft, blended. Wings rather long; the first three quills almost 

 equal, but 'the second longest; the second, third, and fourth cut out on the 

 outer web toward the end; the outer secondaries emarginate. Tail rather 

 long, deeply emarginate or forked, the middle feathers being half an inch 

 shorter than the outer. 



Bill yellow, with the ridge of the upper mandible dusky; iris brown; feet 

 and claws black. The upper part of the head crimson, the feathers of the 

 cheeks, sides of the body and hind part of the rump pale carmine. A band 

 edging the forehead, the loral space, and the throat, black. The upper 

 parts are dusky, streaked with brownish-white, the margins of the feathers 

 being of the latter colour, and the former gradually disappearing on the hind 

 part of the back and rump, which are nearly white, tinged with rose-colour; 

 the lower parts greyish-white, the sides streaked with dusky. The wings 

 and tail are dusky, with greyish-white edges, and two transverse bands of the 

 same on the tips of the first row of small coverts and the secondary coverts. 



Length to end of tail 5i inches; extent of wings 9; bill along the ridge 

 T 5 2J wing from flexure 3 T 2 2-; tail 2^; tarsus ^ hind toe ||, its claw yf ; third 

 toe T 4 2, its claw yf . 



The female, which is somewhat less, has the black of the forehead and 

 throat tinged with brown, the crimson patch on the head of less extent, the 

 sides and rump destitute of red. 



LESSER REDPOLL LINNET. 



■ Linaria Minor, Ray. 

 PLATE CLXXIX.— Male and Female. 



When I was in Labrador, my young companions and my son one day (the 

 27th of July, 1S33), procured eight individuals of this species, of different 

 sexes and ages. Next morning I went to the place where they had been 

 shot, and found a good number remaining. The first observation I made 

 had reference to their notes, which, instead of resembling those of the Gold- 

 finch, as alleged by an American writer, are very similar to those of the 



