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with its claw as long as the third with its claw ; the lateral toes equal ; claws 
large, moderately arched, much compressed, acute. 
Plumage soft, blended. Wings rather long ; the first three quills almost 
equal, but the second longest ; the second, third, and fourth cut out on the 
outer web toward the end ; the outer secondaries emarginate. Tail rather 
long, deeply emarginate or forked, the middle feathers being half an inch 
shorter than the outer. 
Bill yellow, with the ridge of the upper mandible dusky ; iris brown ; feet 
and claws black. The upper part of the head crimson, the feathers of the 
cheeks, sides of the body and hind part of the rump pale carmine. A band 
edging the forehead, the loral space, and the throat, black. The upper 
parts arc dusky, streaked with brownish-white, the margins of the feathers 
being of the latter colour, and the former gradually disappearing on the hind 
part»of the back and rump, which are nearly white, tinged with rose-colour ; 
the lower parts greyish-white, the sides streaked with dusky. The wings 
and tail are dusky, with greyish-white edges, and two transverse bands of the 
same on the tips of the first row of small coverts and the secondary coverts. 
Length to end of tail oi inches ; extent of wings 9 ; bill along the ridge 
t 3 2 ; wing from flexure 3 T 2 g ; tail 2 r 5 5 ; tarsus T V> hind toe f%, its claw f-|- ; 
third toe T \, its claw ff. 
The female, which is somewhat less, has the black of the forehead and 
throat tinged with brown, the crimson patch on the head of less extent, the 
sides and rump destitute of red. 
LESSER REDPOLL LINNET. 
Linaria Minor, Ray. 
PLATE CLXXIX. — Male and Female. 
When I was in Labrador, my young companions and my son one day (the 
27th of July, 1833), procured eight individuals of this species, of different 
sexes and ages. Next morning I went to the place where they had been 
shot, and found a good number remaining. The first observation I made 
had reference to their notes, which, instead of resembling those of the Gold- 
finch, as alleged by an American writer, are very similar to those of the 
