Crass I. LESS RED HEADED LINNET. 
but not fo bright; yet in the breafts of fome we 
have found the red wanting: the belly is. white: 
the back dufky, edged with reddifh brown: the 
fides in fome yellowifh, in others afh color, but 
both marked with narrow dufky lines: the quil- 
feathers, and thofe of the tail, are dufky, border- 
ed with dirty white: the coverts dufky, edged 
with white, fo as to form two tranfverfe lines of 
that color. The fpot on the forehead of the female 
is of a faffron color. The lees are dufky. 
We have feen the neft of this fpecies on an alder 
ftump near a brook, between two or three feet 
from the ground: it was made on the outfide with 
dried ftalks of erafs and other plants, and here and 
there a little wool, the lining was hair and a few 
feathers: the bird was /tiing on four eggs of a pale 
bluifh green, thickly fprinkled near the blunt end 
with {mall reddifh fpots. The bird was fo tena- 
cious of her neft, as to fuffer us to take her off 
with our hand, and we found that after we had, re- 
leafed her fhe would not forfake it. 
This feems to be the fpecies known Pott Lone 
- don under the name of ffone redpoll: is gregarious. 
Vou, I. Aa Le 
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