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best ; and the song of the Red-breasted Linnet differs from both. Now, 

 if our own experience is correct, we have, from observation, been 

 always led to believe that the song of all birds of the same species, in a 

 wild state, is invariably the same. It is true, the habits of these three 

 birds are very similar. They frequent the same places, and build their 

 nests in the same kind of bushes, which are generally furze or whins ; 

 but the redpole is much more wild and shy than the linnet. 



In Scotland there are vast numbers of grey linnets, but the redpole 

 and Red-breasted Linnet are rather rare birds in that country ; — a 

 thousand grey linnets may be found for one redpole, and five or six 

 hundred grey for one Red-breasted Linnet. In spring and summer we 

 have often had the nests of grey linnets, and seen numbers of them 

 shot in winter, spring, summer, and autumn, but always found the 

 plumage nearly the same ; — it is lighter, and more of a greyish-brown, 

 than either the Red-breasted Linnet or redpole. The plumage of the 

 last birds is more of a tint between amber and chesnut-brown ; — that of 

 the grey linnet is between yellowish and hair-brown ; but the aspect, 

 as well as the colours of the three birds, are very different from each 

 other. The grey linnet never has red on its breast ; — the red on the 

 breast of the Red-breasted Linnet is pale, and of a tint between carmine 

 and lake red, softly waved transversely ; — that on the breast of the 

 redpole is deep artereal blood-red, streaked downwards, and strongly 

 marked. That redpoles, in a state of confinement, lose the red alto- 

 gether, may be accounted for by change of food, or the privation of 

 something they were accustomed to in a wild state. Hempseed changes 

 the plumage of the bullfinch to black, and very long confinement, or 

 age, or some other cause, affects the goldfinch, so that it assumes a 

 white appearance ; but we never could perceive any difference in the 

 plumage of wild and tame linnets." * 



ROSE OUZEL (Pastor roseus, Temminck.) 



*Pastor roseus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 136 — Flem. Br. Anim. p. 66. — Turdus 



roseus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 294. 15.— Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 819. sp. 15 Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 1. p. 344. sp. 59. — Sturnus roseus, Scop. Ann. 1. No. 191 Turdus 



Seleucis, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 837. 1. sp. 26. female. — Merula rosea, Raii, Syn. 



p. 67. 9 Will. p. 143.— Briss. 2. p. 250. 20.— Merle couleur de rose, Buff. 



Ois 3. p. 348. 22 lb. PI. Enl. p. 251 Le Roselin, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afric. 2. 



p. 96. — Martin Roselin, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 136. — Rosenfarbige-Drossel, 

 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 201.— Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 39. 3.— Rose- 

 coloured Ouzel or Thrush, Br. Zool. App. No. 5. t. 5. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 344. 



9 Will. (Angl.) p. 194.— Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 64 Lath. Syn. 3. p. 50. 



—Mont. Orn. Diet. — Wall. Syn. 2. t. 196.— Don. Br. Birds, t. 24.— Bewick's 

 Br. Birds, 1. and App. with figure of male. — Selby, pi. 36. fig. 2. p. 94. * 



This beautiful species is rather less than the blackbird. Length 

 near eight inches ; bill three quarters of an inch long, a little bent, of 



