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ORD. III. G E N. VI. FINCH. 



S P E. IX. RED POLL. 



PI. 79 . 



Fringilla linaria. Lis. Syft. I. p. 322. 



La Petite Linotte de Vignes. Brif. Orn. III. p. 138. 



The eye of this fpecies is dark brown : bill pale yellow : round the bafe of 

 the beak to the eye black : on the throat a black fpot : top of the head of a 

 rich crimfon red : the breaft is likewife red, but paler : beak yellowifh brown, 

 each feather edged with buff colour, and having on the middle a dull black 

 Uafh : the quill and tail feathers are dark brown, edged with dull white : on the 

 wings are two yellowifh white bars : legs nearly black. 



The female has not the red on the breaft, and the crown of the head is pale 

 orange colour. 



This is a very numerous fpecies, vifiting us in large flocks at Michaelmas, 

 from the more northern parts of England, Scotland, France, and Germany. I 

 once found a neft of this bird, built on the extreme ends of a thick white-thorn 

 hedge, and neatly lined with the down of thirties. I fhould not have difcover- 

 ed this fmall neft, if I had not feen the birds collecting the down from the thif- 

 tle head, and carrying it to the place. They frequent alder trees in particular, 

 and feed on the feeds, as alfo on the feeds of the hop. They have a cheerful 

 chirp, which they frequently repeat, but the fong is very mean. They feed as 

 the others of this genus when domefticated. For the egg fee PI. XVIII. 

 Fig- 3- 



