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light bluifli green, thickly fprinkkd with reddilh fpots, moftiy 

 at the larger end." Pennant obferves, he has found the neft 

 on the flump of an alder, and fays, " the bird was fo tenacious 

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

 we found after we had releafed her fhe would not forfake it." 

 3t feeds chiefly on the feeds of alder during autumn. 



We received the following curious circumftance from Mr. 

 T. Fofter, Jun. of Clapton; " A fmall bird, I believe the 

 Fringilla linaria, was brought to me by a man who obferved 

 it to die in the following extraordinary manner. While fitting 

 upon its perch and finging as ufual, it fuddenly began to bleed 

 very profufely from the mouth, and in a few moments after-, 

 wards dropped down dead upon the floor of its cage. Upon 

 examination, I found the heart converted into an offeous fub- 

 fbnee, of fo hard a texture, that it Could fcarcely be cut in 

 pieces with a very fharp knife ; it was perfectly white and 

 appeared at a diftance like an ill-fhaped egg. 



" The principal of offification extended fome way along 

 the great arteries, I did not difcover from the rupture of what 

 vefTel the haemorrhage caufing the bird's death had proceeded, 

 as the neck had been very confiderably contufed fince its death. 

 The bird had conflantly fed upon hemp -feed." 



The note of this bird in its wild ftate is fimple, but when 

 confined it is improved, and being kept with the common 

 linnet or goldfinch it will learn their notes ; when in fearch of 

 infers, the Redpole runs up and down the branches of tree£ 

 in the manner of the blue titmoufe. 



Our figures are reduced from the firft plate of thofe executed 

 for the late William Curtis, 



