ClafsII. RED HEADED LINNET. 313 



yellow, ftreaked with dufky lines. It is a common 

 fraud in the bird-mops in London^ when a male bird 

 is diftinguifhed from the female by a red bread, a9 

 in the cafe of this bird, to (tain or paint the feathers, 

 fo that the deceit is not eafily difcovered, at left 

 clofe infpection. 



Thefe birds are frequent on our fea-coafts j and are 

 often taken inflight time near London: it is a familiar 

 bird ; and is as chearful five minutes after it is caught 

 as a French prifoner is faid to be after the fame fhort 

 captivity. 



VIII. The LESSER RED-HEADED LINNET. 



Wil,orn.z6o. Fringilla linarla. Lin.fyft.^t, 



Raiijyn. av. ol. Grafifka. Faun, Suec./p, 24.1. 



La petite Linotte des vignes. Grafel,MeerzeifeJ,TfchotfcherI. 



Brijfon av.-m. 1 38. Kram. 369. 



PI. tnl. 1 5 1 . f. a. Br. Zoo/. III. 



THI S is the left of the linnets, being fcarce half 

 the fize of the preceding. Its bill is dusky, Defer. 

 but the bafeof the lower mandible yellow: the fore- 

 head ornamented with a rich mining fpot of a pur- 

 plifh red : the bread is of the fame color, but not fo 

 bright ; yet in the breads of fome we have found the 

 red wanting : the belly is white : the back dusky 

 edged with reddifh brown : the fides in fome yellowifh, 

 in others afh-color, but both marked with narrow 

 dusky lines: the quil-feathers, and thofe of the tail 

 are dusky, bordered with dirty white : the coverts 



dusky, 



