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parts dark reddish brown ; the feathers pale on the margins ; those 

 of the head very dark, with cinereous edges; sides of the neck cine- 

 reous ; on the throat a line of brown, bounded on each side with 

 white; beneath the body dirty reddish white ; breast deeper than the 

 rest, and in spring becomes of a beautiful crimson ; on the wings a 

 longitudinal white mark ; quills dusky; tail a little forked, brown, 

 the feathers edged with white, but the two middle ones have reddish 

 margins; legs brown. The female wants the red on the breast. 



This bird is sufficiently common in England, and breeds on low 

 shrubs, black and white thorn, and furze ; the nest composed of dried 

 herbs, grass, and moss, lined with wool and hair; the eggs four or five, 

 white, spotted with reddish brown at the larger end ; the first brood 

 is hatched in May, and sometimes the bird builds again in August, 

 in case the first nest is destroyed ; often found in flocks, during the 

 winter, and feeds on many kinds of seeds, and most so on that of flax, 

 called linseed, when in the neighbourhood of its growth ; hence the 

 name : is found throughout France, Italy, Germany, the south of 

 Russia, and many parts of Europe, and probably at the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



59— RED-HEADED LINNET. 



Fringilla cannabina, Ind. Orn. i. 458. Lin. i. 322. Faun. Suec. No. 240. Gm. Lin. i. 



916. Scop. i. No. 219. Brun. 263. Midler, No. 261. Kramer, 368. 8. Frisc/i, 



t. 9. 1. 2. Georgi, p. 174. Faun. Arag. 87. Sepp, Vog. t. p. 157. Borowsk. iii. 



142. Bartr. Trav. p. 289. Shaw's Zool. ix. 516. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 216. Id. 



Ed. ii. p. 367. 

 Linaria rubra major, Bris. iii. 135. Id. 8vo. i. 343. Klein, 93. 1. Id. Stem. IS. t. IS. 



f. 8. a. b. Id. ov. p. 29. t. 9. f. 13. Raii, 91. A. 2. Will. 191. t. 46. Faun. 



Helvet. Gerin. iii. t. 357. 1. 

 La grande Linotte de Vignes, Buf. iv. 58. PI. enl. 485. f. 1. 

 Haenfling, Gunth. Nest. u. Eyer. t. 58. Naturf. xxii. 96. 

 Greater Red-headed Linnet, or Redpole, Gen. Syn. iii. 304. Id. Sup. 167. Id. Sup: 



ii. 209. Br. Zool. i. No. 131. pi. 54. Id. 1812. i. p. 464. pi. 61. Id.fol. f. 110. 



Arct. Zool. ii. No. 261. Collins, Birds, pi. 3. f. 2. & pi. 4. f. 4. Will. Engl. p. 260. 



