466 LESS RED HEADED FINCH. Class II. 



9. Less Red Fringilla Linaria. Fr. fusco Le Sizerin. Hist, d'ois. iv. 



HEADED. gri S eoque varia, subtus al- 2l6. PL Enl. 151. f. 2. 



bo-rufescens, fascia alarum Fringilla Linaria. Gm. Lin. 



duplici albida, vertice pec- 917- 



toreque rubris. Lath. Ind. Grasiska. Faun. Suec.sp. 241. 



orn. 458. id. Syn. iii. 305. Grasel, Meerzeisel, Tschot- 



id. Sup. i. 167. scherl. Kram. 369. 



Wil. orn. 260. Rothplattige Staenfling. Fris. 



Rail Syn. av. 91. i. 10. 



La petite Linotte des vignes. Br. Zool. 111. Arct. Zool.n. 



Brissonav. iii. 138. 6&. 



TION. 



Descrip- xHIS is the lest of the genus, being scarcely 

 half the size of the preceding. Its bill is 

 dusky, but the base of the lower mandible 

 yellow ; the forehead ornamented with a rich 

 shining spot of a purplish red ; the breast is of 

 the same color, but not so bright ; yet, in the 

 breasts of some, w r e have found the red want- 

 ing ; the belly is white ; the back dusky, edged 

 with reddish brown ; the sides in some yellow- 

 ish, in others ash color, but both marked with 

 narrow dusky lines ; the quil feathers, and those 

 of the tail, are dusky, bordered with dirty white; 

 the coverts dusky, edged with white, so as to 

 form two transverse lines of that color. The 

 spot on the forehead of the female is of a saf- 

 fron color : the legs are dusky. 



We have seen the nest of this species on an 

 alder stump near a brook, between two or three 



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