3 12 RED HEADED LINNET. Clafs II. 



their favorite food ; from whence the name of the 

 linnet tribe. 



They breed among furze and white thorn : the 

 ©utfide of their nefi: is made with mofs and bents ; and 

 lined with wool and hair. They lay five whitifh eggs 

 fpotted like thofe of the goldfinch. 



yil. The GREATER RED-HEADED LINNET, 

 OR REDPOLL. 



Linarla rubra. Gefner av. 591. Fringilla cannabina. Lin. fyft, 

 paaello marino. Aldr. a-v. ii. 322. 



360. Hampling. Faun. Suec. fp. 240. 



Wil. orn. 260. Torn-Iriflc.. Brunnicb 263. 



Raii/yn. a-j. 91. HauefFerl, Hampfling. Kram* 

 X>a grande Linotte des vignes. 368. 



BriJJhi wo. iii. 1 3^. Br. ZtoL HO. 



Defer. t ~V y HIS bird is lefs than the former : on the fore- 

 •*■ head is a blood- colored fpot ; the reft of the 

 head afh color : the bread is tinged with a fine rofe- 

 coior : the head and neck are of an afh-color : the 

 back, fcapular feathers, and coverts of the wings 

 are of a bright reddifh brown : the firft quil-feather 

 is entirely black ; the exterior and interior edges of 

 the eight following are white, which forms a bar of 

 that color on the wing, even when clofed : the fides 

 are yellow ; the middle of the belly white: the tail, 

 like that of the former, is forked, of a dusky color, 

 edged on both fides with white, which is broadefi on 

 the inner webs. The head of the female is afh-color 

 fpotted with black : the back and fcapulars are of a 

 dull browniih red : and the breaft and fides of a dirty 

 a yellow, 



