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LESSER RED POLE FINCH. 

 (Fringilla Linaria.) 



Fr. fusco griseoque varia, subtus albo rufescens, Jascia alarum 



duplici albida, vertice pectoreque rubris. 

 Finch varied with fuscous and grey; beneath reddish white, 



with a double white band on the wings ; crown and breast 



red. 



Fringilla Linaria. Lin. Syst. 1. 322. 2Q. — Lin. Faun. Suec. 241. 



— Gmel. Syst. NaL 1. gi7.-—Latk. Ind. Orn. 1. 458. 83. 

 Linaria rubra minor. Briss. 3. 138. 31. 



Le Sizerin, petite linotte des vignes. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 



216.— Buff. PI. Ent. 151. f. 2. 

 Lesser red-headed Linnet, or Redpole. Penn. Brit. Zool. 132. 



54.^-Penn. Arct.Zool. 2. 262.— Albin. Birds. 3. 75. — Lewin. 



Brit. Birds. 2. 85.— Mont. Brit. Birds. 2.— Lath. Gen. Syn.3. 



305. 75. — Lath, Syn. Sup. 167. — Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 174. 



— Don. Brit. Birds. 5. 114. * 



In length five inches : beak inclining to dull 

 yellow : irides hazel : forehead purplish red 5 the 

 feathers of all the other parts above are dusky, 

 edged with rufous brown : chin black : throat 

 and breast pink : sides streaked with dusky : belly 

 white : quills and tail dusky, margined with pale 

 brown : in some the rump is tinged with blossom- 

 colour : legs dusky : female lighter in colour ; 

 with the head yellowish, and the throat and breast 



without the pink hue : the young bird very much 



resembles the female : the males are subject to 



very great variety. 



This species is very common in the winter, in 



the southern parts of England, when it becomes 



