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LESSER RED-POLL. 



The Red-polls linger in the neighborhood of Philadelphia 

 until about the middle of April ; but whither they retire for the 

 business of incubation we cannot determine. 



In common with almost all our Finches , the Red-polls be* 

 come very fat, and are then accounted delicious eating. During 

 the last winter many hundreds of them were exposed to sale in 

 the Philadelphia market, and were readily purchased by those 

 epicures whose love of variety permits no delicacy to escape them. 



