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its fore part, the breast, and flanks, rich carmine; the middle of the breast, 

 the abdomen, and the lower tail-coverts white, tinged with rose-colour; the 

 sides longitudinally streaked with dusky. 



Length to end of tail 5; to end of wings 4; extent of wings 8|; wing 

 from flexure S-^', tail 2^; bill along the ridge y-f, along the edge of lower 

 mandible -ff ; tarsus -j^; first toe f f , its claw ff j middle toe f§, its claw -£%. 



Adult Female in summer. 



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

 throat more brown, with less red on the head, and little or none on the 

 rump, or on the lower parts, which are white, the breast and flanks longitu- 

 dinally streaked with dusky. 



PINE LINNET. 



-1- LlNARIA PlNUS, WUs. 

 PLATE CLXXX.— Male and Female. 



During the winter months, the Pine Finch is such a wanderer, that it 

 ranges at irregular periods, from the coast line westward to the banks of the 

 Ohio, and southward to the Carolinas. Now and then, during severe weather 

 with occasional storms of snow, I have seen flocks of a hundred individuals 

 or more, rambling in search of a place in which to alight and seek for 

 nourishment. In December 1833, I shot several near Charleston in South 

 Carolina, and on a previous winter procured five near Henderson in Ken- 

 tucky. Their visits to those districts, however, are of short duration, the 

 least increase of temperature seeming to recall them to their more northern 

 haunts; and as soon as spring commences, they all disappear from the dis- 

 tricts south of Maine and the adjacent countries. 



In August and September 1832, while travelling in the British provinces, 

 I and my companions frequently met with flocks of these birds, in company 

 with the American Crossbill, feeding amid the branches of the tallest fir 

 trees, as well as on the seeds of the thistles of that country, much in the 

 manner of the American Goldfinch, and the European Siskin. When dis- 

 turbed, they would rise high in the air in an irregular flight, emitting their 

 peculiar call-note as they flew; but would always realight as soon as another 



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