3 i4 RED HEADED LINNET. Clafs If. 



dusky, edged with white, fo as to form two tranf- 

 verfe lines of that color. The fpot on the fore- 

 head of the female is of a faffron color. The legs 

 are dusky. 



Mr. Vfilloughby gives us thefe notes to diftinguifh 

 it from the laft fpecies. I. It is iefs. II. The bill 

 is leffer and marper. III. Both fexes have the fpot 

 on the head. IV. Its legs and feet are blacker. 

 V. The tail has lefs white in it. VI. This fpecies is 

 gregarious, the other not. 



We have feen the nefc of this fpecies on an alder 

 {lump near a brook, between two or three feet from 

 the ground : it was made on the outfide with dried 

 ftalks of grafs and other plants, and here and there a 

 little wool, the lining was hair and a few feathers : 

 the bird was fitting on four eggs of a pale bluifh 

 green, thickly fprinkled near the blunt end with 

 fmall reddifh fpots. The bird was fo tenacious 

 of her neft, as to fuffer us to take her off with our 

 hand, and we found that after we had releafed her 

 fhe would not forfake it. 



This feems to be the fpecies known about London 

 under the name of theftone redpoll. 



IX. The 



