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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. — F/m. 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. — B7'iss. 2. p. 250. 20. — Merle couleur de rose, Buff. 
Ois 3. p. 348. 22.— Ih. 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. Dent. 1. p. 201. — Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 39. 3. — Rose- 
coloured Ouzel or Thrush, Br. Zool. App. No. 5. t. 5. — A ret. 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 
